Trauma of Emotional Mishaps Every woman has a wish and a dream, and would feel thrilled when given the chance to make her dream come true or even at least, to fulfill her wishes. Mama is the wife who is deprived of the ability and sense of choice, she is reduced to an ordinary house wife not even a home maker, almost enslaved by her own husband, in her own legal matrimonial home. This is the height of masculinity and sense of dominance men exhibit in a patriarchal society like Nigeria. Many women like Mama have, and are suffering from the trauma of repressed emotions. When Eugene asked her to join him in visiting Father Benedict, she decides to remain in the car because she’s pregnant and not feeling well as a result, noticing his facial and gestural reaction, she immediately changed her mind and manages to join him reluctantly. Later at home, he beats her for that, for expressing her choice, for feeling sick, for not obeying before complain. Eugene reveals his inability to tolerate and accommodate …show more content…
Being at the receiving end of Eugene’s grief, as caused by the tyrannical military regime which closes down his wafer factory, claims the life of his reporter (radio station) and also rendered lots of people jobless to which he has to shoulder their responsibility. Mama reports; “Eugene has not been well. He has been having migraines and fever… He is carrying more than any man should carry. Do you know what Ade’s death caused him? It is too much for one person.” (Adichie 250) Thus, Eugene shifts his anger on the poor Mama, beats her up devilishly, torture her emotionally; ultimately causing her to be earnestly traumatized. “Her face was puffy from crying and her lips were cracked, with bits of discolored skin peeling off.” (213). These or more, are what some Nigerian women underwent during the days of military rule in