What does Okeke do when his son sends him a wedding photo?

In 's short story,
"Marriage is a Private Affair," when Nnaemeka's father, Okeke, receives the wedding
photo from his son, he rips the picture in half. After ripping out the image of Nnaemeka's
bride, Nene, he sends the photo back to his son with a terse message:

It amazes me that you could be so unfeeling as to send me your
wedding picture. I would have sent it back. But on further thought I decided just to cut off
your wife and send it back to you because I have nothing to do with her. How I wish that I had
nothing to do with you either (para 54).

Unfortunately
for Nnaemeka, Okeke had previously arranged a marriage for him as is the Ibo tradition. It was
unheard of for a son to find his own bride, much less a bride from a different tribe who is a
school teacher. When Nnaemeka rebels against the planned marriage and weds Nene anyway, his
father is overcome with grief. Eight years later, Nene sends the father a letter imploring him
to meet his two grandsons. The old man is beset with guilt caused by shutting out his son's
family. At the end of the story, he hopes that it is not too late to make up the years that he
lost and knows he must accept his son and his family.