![]() What I boast is known in Lagos, that city / Of magic, in Badagry where Saro women bathe / In gold, even in smaller towns less than / Twelve miles from here. ![]() This is not the only time in the text that Lakunle reveals his hypocritical nature, but it certainly is a conspicuous example of it. He seems to want both a chaste wife and a wife whom he can openly flaunt. He does not want people to look at her and lust after her, yet he claims that when they are married she will walk beside him. Lakunle wants her to be a modern wife and kiss him in the street, but he also expresses shock that she bares her shoulders and décolletage. Lakunle is full of words, and these words are usually directed at Sidi in terms of trying to woo her and trying to admonish her at the same time. quite / A good portion of-that! Lakunle, 2 How often must I tell you, Sidi, that / A grown-up girl must cover up her. ![]()
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