Does Okonkwo Wear Wifebeaters?

So in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe the main character, Okonkwo, constantly beats any of his 3 wives. The beatings do not stop with the wives though; he also beat his son for crying over the death of his brother, whom Okonkwo killed. One of Okonkwo's wives cut off a leaf from a banana tree, so he proceeded to beat her, as usual. It seems to me that Okonkwo has a plan on how to be a successful man in his society by getting his yams to prosper. Okonkwo has certain steps that he knows must be followed in order to be a strong man. When something happens outside of that plan, like Banana leaves being cut off, someone must be beat because it strays from Okonkwo's idea of efficiency and what is proper. Whenever something "different" happens around Okonkwo, he panics in his own way, and reacts by beating someone because that is the way of life that he has known. It's a pretty bad cause and effect sequence.