Walter Lee Younger
This is the approximate age of Walter Lee Younger.
What is "middle 30s"?
This is the approximate age of Ruth Younger.
What is "about 30"?
This is the approximate age of Beneatha Younger.
What is "about twenty"?
This is the approximate age of the matriarch of the Younger family, Mama.
What is "early sixties"?
This is the approximate age of Travis Younger.
What is 10 or 11?
This is how Walter speaks.
What is erratic and accusatory?
This is how Ruth feels.
What is tired and disappointed in everything?
This is how Beneatha speaks.
What is mostly educated, but the slang comes out when she gets worked up?
This is how Mama carries herself.
What is bold and beautiful, like her strong African ancestors?
This is the city the Younger family lives in.
What is Chicago on the Southside?
This is how Walter carries himself.
What is with nervous and quick movements?
This is what happens to Ruth at the end of the first scene.
What is Ruth faints and slips to the ground?
This is why Beneatha upsets her mother.
What is she tells Mama that she does not believe in God?
This is how mama speaks.
What is uneducated, but experienced; slang and slurred, but full of wisdom?
This is the how many people live in the one-bedroom apartment.
What is five: Mama, Walter Lee, Ruth, Travis, and Beneatha?
This is Walter's job.
What is a chauffeur for rich, white men?
This is Ruth's job.
What is a maid for rich, white families?
This is Beneatha's American Dream.
This is why she is getting a check.
What is her husband passed away and she's getting his life insurance?
This is Walter's idea to make quick money.
What is to open his own liquor store?
This is Walter's American Dream.
To make quick money and have something left to show for his hard work?
This is Ruth's American Dream.
What is to make enough money so she doesn't have to run herself ragged all the time?
This is Beneatha's job that causes tension with her brother.
What is a student, so she relies on the income of her family?
This is Mama's American Dream.
What is to own her own house that her family can live in and be proud of?
This is the symbol for the Younger family.
What is Mama's plant she is trying to keep alive?