Characters
Clue: This character is the head of the household and works as a chauffeur.
Answer: Who is Walter Lee?
Clue: The play takes place in this city.
Answer: What is Chicago?
Clue: “Eat your eggs.”
Answer: Who is Ruth?
Clue: A small amount of money given regularly.
Answer: What is allowance?
Clue: Wanting a better future describes this theme.
Answer: What is dreams?
Clue: She is Walter’s wife and wants a better home for her family.
Answer: Who is Ruth?
Clue: The Younger family lives in a small, crowded ______.
Answer: What is an apartment?
Clue: “Man say: I got to change my life…”
Who is Walter?
Clue: To adjust or fit into a different culture.
Answer: What is assimilate?
Clue: Walter’s desire for money connects to this theme.
Answer: What is the American Dream?
Clue: This character dreams of becoming a doctor.
Answer: Who is Beneatha?
Clue: The family is waiting for this important item to arrive.
Answer: What is the insurance check?
Clue: “There is always something left to love.”
Answer: Who is Mama?
Clue: A feeling of stress or conflict.
Answer: What is tension?
Clue: The family struggles with this issue.
Answer: What is poverty?
Clue: She is the matriarch waiting for an insurance check.
Answer: Who is Mama (Lena Younger)?
Clue: This problem shows the family’s financial struggles early in the scene.
Answer: What is not having enough money (or Travis needing money for school)?
Clue: “I want so many things…”
➡️ Answer: Who is Walter?
Clue: Money received after someone dies.
Answer: What is insurance money (inheritance)?
Clue: Beneatha explores this idea about herself.
Answer: What is identity?
Clue: This young boy sleeps on the couch due to lack of space.
Answer: Who is Travis?
Clue: The shared bathroom symbolizes this larger issue.
Answer: What is poverty or lack of resources?
Clue: “I am not an assimilationist!”
➡️ Answer: Who is Beneatha?
Clue: Stage directions tell the reader this.
What is how characters move, speak, or act?
Clue: The family shows this despite conflict.
Answer: What is family unity (or love)?