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- Ruth’s dialogue with Walter reveals how the financial tension, and their different attitudes towards it, threaten their marriage.
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Walter and Ruth continue to argue about their unhappy lives, a dialogue that Ruth cuts short by telling her husband, “Eat your eggs, they gonna be cold.” Beneatha gets up next and after discovering that the bathroom is occupied by someone from another family, engages in a verbal joust with Walter.
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Walter believes that Ruth, who is making his eggs, keeps him...
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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.
Ruth’s dialogue with Walter reveals how the financial tension, and their different attitudes towards it, threaten their marriage. RUTH (Wearily): Honey, you never say nothing new. I listen to you every day, every night and every morning, and you never say nothing new.
Walter and Ruth are at a crossroads. She knows that she is pregnant. Facing this reality with a husband who is now profoundly embittered, Ruth seems to have lost patience with her husband.
Mama asks Ruth about her sudden support for Walter’s investment scheme, to which Ruth answers that “something is happening” between the couple and that Walter “needs this chance” to restore his self-esteem and repair the rift in their marriage.
Ruth and Walter’s conversation reveals that they do have love left in their marriage and that they have both been oppressed by their circumstances. Their entrapment in the ghetto, in their jobs, and in their apartment results in the desire to leave physically, to escape mentally through alcohol, and to lash out at those involved in the ...
With his insult to Ruth about African-American women, Walter attempts to blame his own failings and insecurities on the women who surround him. His insult packs even more punch in light of Ruth’s recently discovered pregnancy.
