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Download A-Raisin-in-the-Sun-excerpt-money.pdf and more Lecture notes Business in PDF only on Docsity! MAMA (Folding bedding) Well—he’s a little boy. Ain’t supposed to know ’bout housekeeping. My baby, that’s what he is. What you fix for his breakfast this morning? RUTH (Angrily) I feed my son, Lena! MAMA I ain’t meddling—(Underbreath; busy-bodyish) I just noticed all last week he had cold cereal, and when it starts getting this chilly in the fall a child ought to have some hot grits or something when he goes out in the cold — RUTH (Furious) I gave him hot oats—is that all right! MAMA I ain’t meddling. (Pause) Put a lot of nice butter on it? (RUTH shoots her an angry look and does not reply) He likes lots of butter. RUTH (Exasperated) Lena— MAMA (To BENEATHA. MAMA is inclined to wander conversationally sometimes) What was you and your brother fussing ’bout this morning? BENEATHA It’s not important, Mama. (She gets up and goes to look out at the bathroom, which is apparently free, and she picks up her towels and rushes out) MAMA What was they fighting about? RUTH Now you know as well as I do. MAMA (Shaking her head) Brother still worrying hisself sick about that money? RUTH You know he is. MAMA You had breakfast? RUTH Some coffee. MAMA Girl, you better start eating and looking after yourself better. You almost thin as Travis. RUTH Lena— MAMA Un-hunh? RUTH What are you going to do with it? MAMA Now don’t you start, child. It’s too early in the morning to be talking about money. It ain’t Christian. RUTH It’s just that he got his heart set on that store— MAMA You mean that liquor store that Willy Harris want him to invest in? RUTH Yes— MAMA We ain’t no business people, Ruth. We just plain working folks. RUTH Ain’t nobody business people till they go into business. Walter Lee say colored people ain’t never going to start getting ahead till they start gambling on some different kinds of things in the world—investments and things. MAMA What done got into you, girl? Walter Lee done finally sold you on investing. RUTH No. Mama, something is happening between Walter and me. I don’t know what it is—but he needs something —something I can’t give him anymore. He needs this chance, Lena. MAMA (Frowning deeply) But liquor, honey— RUTH Well—like Walter say—I spec people going to always be drinking themselves some liquor. MAMA Well—whether they drinks it or not ain’t none of my business. But whether I go into business selling it to ’em is, and I don’t want that on my ledger this late in life. (Stopping suddenly and studying her daughter-in-law) Ruth Younger, what’s the matter with you today? You look like you could fall over right there. RUTH I’m tired.