Double Yoke Pg. 84-163

I agree with Tyler's analysis that Ete fails to reject the traditional societal prejudice towards women. His conflicting thoughts display a character that is willing to accept a new role for women in his life, but is held back by societal pressures. In general I sympathize with Ete's position, someone who wants to accept women as "independent and educated", but is ultimately too weak to break from the traditional path.
I was not at all surprised that Emecheta chose to leave the ending up to the reader, as it allows the reader to use his own society to predict what Ete will do. What I mean by this is that Emecheta allows the reader's societal views and good nature to predict what they want. Most Western readers will interpret the ending as Ete accepting or at least open to a new role for women, but more traditional societies will follow their own cultural beliefs that Ete will accept the cultural "norm" for women in Africa. For myself Emecheta leaves hope at the end of the novel that their is hope for change in societies similar to Ete. The modern culture has a profound effect on Ete's life by allowing him to challenge the longstanding societal norms, and in a sense is already successful even if Ete reverts back under societal pressure. The challenging of the traditional structure leaves hope that there will be further challenges in the future from other people, implying that change might not happen immediately but is inevitable. However, Emecheta implies that there is still a long way to go before everyone accepts the right for women to be treated equally to men, and to proceed one step further than Ete definitively did in truly treating women as equals.