Marriage is a Private Affair: Summary and Analysis of the Story
The story basically presents the burning social problems found in the rural areas where the majority of the people are superstitious and uneducated.
Marriage is a Private Affair - Chinua Achebe Nnaemeka was in love with Nene. Nene was from the city and Nnemeka had come to Lagos from the village. Nene suggested Nnaemeka write a letter about their relationship with his father who was living in the village. But Nnaemeka did not want to inform about their relation to his father from the letter. He wanted to tell everything after meeting his father in the village on his vacation. So, he told his beloved that his father would not be happy knowing their plan of marriage without taking his permission. Nene was surprised by Nneameka's saying. But he convinced her that people who were living in his culture would carry the concept that the parents had to arrange the marriage for their children. His father had sent him a letter. Father had written that he had selected the girl for his son. She was Ugoye who was Nnaemeks's friend in their childhood. But he did not tell anything about it to Nene. On his vacation, Nnaemeka went to his villa…