He sees this investment as an opportunity to be his own boss and to finally provide for his family the way he feels he should. Mama's Insurance Check 'That money belongs to Mama , Walter, and it's for her to decide how she wants to use it.
Walter sees the check as his opportunity to get his business, Beneatha wants to use it to finish medical school, and Mama wants to buy a house. Why does Ruth scramble Walter's eggs , even though he says he does not want them scrambled? She scrambles them perhaps because she does not really care how he wants his eggs , and she scrambles them out of bitterness.
This also shows a lack of communication with each other and their failure to listen to each other. Ruth shows Beneatha the curtains she has bought for the new house and tells her that the first thing she is going to do in their new house is take a long bath in their very own bathroom.
Ruth and Walter understand and join in the lighthearted teasing, and Walter claims that Beneatha talks about nothing but race. Walter Lee has a plan to go into business with his friends, Bobo and Willy.
When Bobo shows up at the Younger's apartment to tell Walter Lee what has happened to his money, it is an example of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony happens when the audience has insight that the character does not have.
This money comes from the deceased Mr. Mama's son, Walter Lee, would rather use the money to invest in a liquor store with his friends. He believes that the investment will solve the family's financial problems forever. Money can represent power, security, scarcity, status, freedom and much more. The eggs represent his hope, dreams, and ambitions. The egg is an idea newly forming in his mind, but it never turns out the way that he wants. Also, it symbolizes Walter's children. In conversations with Ruth and Beneatha in this scene, Mama's values become more clear.
How does Mama feel about money? Mama values money , knowing that it is very difficult to come across. Therefore she wishes that whatever she spends with that money must be worth it. Explanation: In the play "A Raisin in the Sun," the main conflict occurs when a family receives insurance money from the death of their father and has to decide what to do with it.
Although most members pressure " Mama" to do something specific with the money , Beneatha believes that Mama should do whatever she pleases. Hansberry's play even opens with the ringing of an alarm clock, as does Wright's Native Son. Raisin opens on a Friday morning as everyone is getting ready to leave the apartment for their respective obligations: Walter Lee and Ruth have to go to their jobs; Travis and Beneatha have to go to school.
When the alarm clock rings, Ruth is the first one up, as though it is her responsibility to make certain that everyone else gets up and ready for the day ahead. Ruth is weary and overworked, a parallel to the apartment, which is worn out and weary in appearance from "accommodating the living of too many people for too many years.
Travis sleeps on the living room couch. Ruth and Walter Lee's bedroom is actually a small alcove just off the kitchen, originally intended to be a "breakfast room" for a smaller, wealthier family.
Mama and Beneatha share the only actual bedroom of this "apartment. Ruth appears to be annoyed with Walter, although she does not openly admit it. At first, Walter seems too preoccupied with thoughts about the insurance check to consider what might be troubling Ruth. Their conversation revolves around money and the lack thereof; even young Travis is concerned with money, as he asks, "Check coming tomorrow?
Walter admonishes Ruth for telling Travis that they cannot give him fifty cents, and we are immediately more sympathetic to Walter than to Ruth, for their dialogue is reminiscent of the mother in Kathryn Forbes' play I Remember Mama, who insists that children not be told when there is no money because it makes them worry.
Forbes' play revolves around a mother's lie to her children about a nonexistent bank account. In Raisin, not only does Walter give Travis the fifty cents that he has requested, but Walter throws in an additional fifty cents — none of which he can afford. Travis never knows that Walter cannot afford to give him the money. After Travis leaves, Walter eats his breakfast; then, ready to leave for work, he tells Ruth that he needs carfare to get to work. In this scene, note that Ruth's annoyance with Walter is evident in the manner in which she chooses to wake him up.
She is "out of sorts" about something that is not yet clear, although it appears to have something to do with Walter. She asks Walter what kind of eggs he wants, yet she ignores his request for "not scrambled" and scrambles the eggs anyway. The characters are so real in this scene that it is difficult to take anyone's side. And what you know about who is just a good-for-nothing loudmouth?
When he wanted me to go in the dry-cleaning business with him. A hundred thousand dollars a year! You still call him a loudmouth! Money is a consistent reason for dispute between Walter and Ruth.
This quote seems to suggest that Walter doesn't care who he goes into business with as long as it will result in more money. Walter believes he needs to spend money in order to gain money.
And, in this case, he means to spend money on a bribe to help get his liquor license. It seems like Walter's poverty has helped to make him perfectly willing to be a little shady in his business dealings. Walter tries to prevent the family's economic status from affecting his son. He wants his son to have everything he ought to have.
Walter resents Beneatha's wish to become a doctor because it will cost the family a significant amount of money. The Youngers' poverty seems to often make them turn on each other.
The ten thousand dollars is the first thing on everyone's mind because they are so accustomed to being worried about having enough money. Like many Americans the Youngers have had to struggle to make ends meet. Ruth jokes that wealth is the most important trait in a man. Somehow we doubt that she truly believes this. Otherwise, she never would have married Walter.
Eat your breakfast, Travis. The Younger family is so poverty-stricken that Ruth must deny her child money required for class. She's really short with Travis about this. We wonder if her snippiness belies a sense of shame. She goes to her bag and gets money Here — take a taxi! Walter gave Travis his last fifty cents, forcing him to ask Ruth for money to go to work. This moment reveals a lot about Walter. For one, he's ashamed of his poverty and tries to hide it from his son even when it's totally impractical to do so.
Ruth's character is also highlighted in this moment.
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