Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Nothing pleased Nwoye now more than to be sent for by his mother or another of his father’s wives to do one of the difficult and masculine tasks in the home, like splitting wood, or pounding food. On receiving such a message through a younger brother or sister, Nwoye would feign annoyance and grumble about women and their troubles.

Why does Nwoye “feign annoyance and grumble about women and their troubles” when asked to perform tasks that he is pleased to do?

He is worried they will ask him to perform harder tasks.
He is insulted that they would ask him to do women’s work.
He is imitating his father Okonkwo.
He is imitating his brother Ikemefuna.

Answer 1

he is insulted that they would ask him to do womans work

he would rather be doing more masculine stuff rather than sitting around all day with the woman