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  1. Mama calls Walter “a disgrace to your father’s memory.”. Mama implores Walter to honor his father’s memory and take pride in his own manhood by convincing Ruth to not have an abortion. However, Walter is unable to rise to the challenge, dejected as he is by Mama’s refusal to support his dreams.

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  2. Summary: Act 1: Scene 1. It is morning at the Youngers’ apartment. Their small dwelling on the South Side of Chicago has two bedrooms—one for Mama and Beneatha, and one for Ruth and Walter Lee. Travis sleeps on the couch in the living room. The only window is in their small kitchen, and they share a bathroom in the hall with their neighbors.

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  4. Expert Answers. Ruth Younger is a thirty-year-old housewife with a monotonous daily routine. Despite a strained relationship with Walter at the beginning of the play, Ruth works hard to keep her ...

  5. Summary and Analysis Act I — Scene 1. Summary. The Younger family lives in a cramped, "furniture crowded" apartment that is clearly too small for its five occupants in one of the poorer sections of Southside Chicago. Walter Lee wants to invest Mama's $10,000 insurance check in a liquor store venture with two of his friends.

  6. Summary. Analysis. The curtain rises to reveal the Younger family’s living room in its modest home in Chicago’s Southside. It is seven-thirty and still “morning dark” inside the clean but cramped apartment. The “primary feature” of the room is its atmosphere of having accommodated “the living of too many people for too many years.”.

  7. Summary. Analysis. A week later, it is Saturday, moving day for the Youngers. Before the curtain rises, Ruth’s joyful singing “cuts through the silence” as she finishes the family’s packing. Beneatha enters and Ruth happily shows her some curtains that she bought for the new house. Ruth is exuberant and light-hearted and she tells ...

  8. Nov 21, 2023 · Description of Ruth from A Raisin in the Sun. Ruther Younger is a dedicated wife and mother and does what most women did in the 1950s: tend to the house, raise and nurture her son that she shares ...

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