This is the first thing that I find slightly surprising. Adam/Milton declares marriage is meant for 'fit conversation' but all the while implies that Eve is a simpleton and uneducated. It seems instead as if Adam/Milton wants a wife to be inferior in intelligence to the husband to make him feel proud of himself to know so much and be able to lecture her.

I find it surprising that, to Milton, "fit conversation" was the purpose of marriage and his ideal of paradise.