Dreams Worth While: The Journey of 'A Raisin in the Sun' Page #3

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-to put you through college.

-l never asked her to do that.

No, but the line between asking

and just accepting when the time comes

-is big and wide, ain't it?

-What do you want from me, brother?

To quit school or just drop dead? Which?

-Either one would suit me fine.

-Walter!

No, l'm sick of Her Holiness sashaying

around here like she all high and mighty.

Me and Ruth,

we done made some sacrifices for you.

Now it's time you start making some

sacrifices for the rest of the family.

-Don't you be dragging me into this.

-Oh, no, you are in it.

Aren't you the one that's

taking in other people's

dirty laundry to put clothes on her back?

Walter, that ain't fair.

Oh, but it's fair

for Walter not to get anything.

No, it's not like anybody expects you to get

on your knees and say,

''Thank you, Walter. Thank you, Mama.

''Thank you, Travis, for wearing

the same pair of shoes the last two years.''

Well, l do, all right?

Thank you, everybody! Thank you, God!

Thank you, Walter!

Beneatha, stop it.

Forgive me for ever wanting

to be anything at all.

Forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me!

Who in the hell ever told you

to go be a doctor, anyway?

You so crazy about messing

with sick people,

why don't you go be a nurse

like other women?

l'll be what l want to be.

-With somebody else's money.

-lt's Mama's money.

-He was my father, too.

-And mine and Travis's grandfather, too.

Brow-beating me isn't gonna make her

give it to you

to invest in some harebrained scheme.

And l, for one,

say ''God Bless Mama'' for that.

Are you listening to her?

Are you listening to her?

Will you please just get out of here?

Get on to work, come on.

Nobody in this house is ever gonna

understand me.

'Cause you're a nut.

-Who's a nut?

-You.

Thee is mad, boy.

The world's most backward

race of women, and that's a fact.

And then there's you, a prophet

who would lead us out of the wilderness

-and into the swamps.

-Bennie, why?

Why do you have to rile your brother up

so much in the morning?

'Cause it's too much fun not to.

l need some money.

Carfare.

What, fifty cents?

lf she didn't want to docent

the museum opening, she didn't have to.

Well, yes l am. l am going to get involved.

Because this kind of behavior

can't be tolerated.

-Are you leaving?

-Yes.

l've have late meetings,

so don't hold supper.

Bring the car around for Mr. Arnold.

l need to be at the Shipley building at noon.

Yes, sir.

Priscilla.

l ain't playing no hide and seek, child.

You got to get to school.

Well, it looks like you're not in here.

And l know you're not in that closet.

Not with that big, hairy spider

l saw in there yesterday.

Come on, girl. Put this on.

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