when things fall apart

I really enjoyed the story "when things fall apart".  In some ways i found the piece to be very sad, okonkwos internal battle of self was heart breaking in my mind.  The story describe a fire that was inside of him that would swallow him whole and it did.  The weirdness of the piece however came when he did commit suicide.  The author feed you so much about the internal fire that was going to be the end of him and he set you up for his death to be a little more dramatic.  But instead he simply hung himself, he had come to terms with the fact that his country, his village had left their values and traditions behind and sadly that included Okonkwo.