character presentation notes

ruth:

• around 30 years
• tired
• holding a burden
• conflict with Walter
• sleeps in a room with Walter lee 
• gets pregnant and faint
• heros - rosa parks, travis and god
• sad, frustrated and stressed
• "Oh, let him go on out and drink himself to death! He makes me sick to my stomach!"
• song: Tears dry on their own

Walter lee:

• 35
• son of mama, married to ruth, brother of beneatha, father of travis
• conflict with mama
• sleeps in room with ruth
• ambitious 
• angry, sad and disappointed 
• wants to open liquor store with insurance money
• “Man says to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman says: Eat your eggs. Man says: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And a woman will say: Eat your eggs and go to work.”(Chapter 1)
• song: liquor store blues

Beneatha:

• Bennie and sister
• 20 
• intense 
• intellectual face
• English is better than family 
• conflict with Walter
• sleeps with mama
• goes to school to become a doctor
• stubborn, determined, immature and strong
• questions christianity 
• opinionated 
• “(Turning on him with a sharpness all her own) That money belongs to Mama, Walter, and it’s for her to decide how she wants to use it.”
• song: run the world