Abstract
This paper is an account of an attempt to explore the ways in which masculinities have been constructed through stereotypical masculine attributes in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This study is significant as it tries to probe into the structure of the language and textual discourse of the novel to find out the ways in which masculinities have been constructed in the Igbo culture. The theoretical framework is drawn from Gender Studies and social theories of Constructionism and Masculinities. The present research is predominantly qualitative in nature as the data are based on the text of the novel, so in order to get the meanings and interpretations of the text Textual Analysis is selected as a technique for data analysis. While analyzing the stereotypical masculine attributes, the analysis clearly indicates that the concepts of manliness and masculinities are not fixed naturally rather these are the construction of the minds of the people. It also confirms that the masculine attributes and the ideas of conventional manliness are purely the constructs of a society which are asserted to maintain men’s supremacy over women.