In "Marriage Is a Private Affair" and the excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve, traditional cultures and more modern ways clash. Do the characters in these stories gain or lose more from the clash they experience? Use details from the stories to support your response.

"Marriage Is a Private Affair" tells the story between a father and a son and how the generations in a family change over time. The son was raised in a very traditional environment, where it was a cultural custom for parents to choose the women their children should marry. However, in this story Nnaemeka, the son, decides that he will not marry in this way, but will marry for love with a girl from outside his village named Nene. His father, Okeke, is furious and says that if his son disobeys tradition in this way, they will have to cut off any kind of contact, forever. Even not wanting to leave his father, Nnaemeka marries Nene and gains true love and builds a family with her, which makes him very happy.

Okeke, in fact, no longer comes into contact with his son and loses the birth of his grandchildren and the comfort of a family relationship, but, after years, he goes back on his decision and decides to live with his grandchildren and the family that Nnaemeka built, which also belongs to him. If we look at it this way, we can see that, despite so many disagreements, everyone came out winning.