Dreams Worth While: The Journey of 'A Raisin in the Sun' Page #2

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-This is real.

-They're all real.

All the schemes that go nowhere.

-Not like this one.

-No, Walter.

Why not?

First of all, l'm not gonna be

pretending anything with your mother.

Now that's your nonsense. That's not mine.

And second of all,

the money doesn't belong to us, Walter.

-lt's your mother's money.

-What's she gonna do with it?

Walter, just finish your breakfast.

Come on, go to work.

-Why can't you listen to me?

-Walter, don't shout at me.

That's the only way

l can get through to you.

Walter, please.

Ruth. Ruth, listen.

Now it normally costs $75,000,

to get into something

like we're thinking about getting into,

but Willy knows somebody

that can get us in for 30.

That's 10,000 three ways.

Plus a little something extra

to spread around

to the people to get the licenses approved.

-You mean bribes?

-Don't call it that.

This is business. Don't nothing happen in

this world unless somebody's getting paid.

Walter, eat your eggs.

That's it? ''Eat your eggs''?

Walter, that ain't none of our money.

This morning l get up.

l go to a bathroom l gotta share

with two floors of people.

l look in the mirror.

Thirty-five years old,

been married eleven years.

l got a boy who sleeps in the living room.

And all l got to tell him are stories

about how rich, white people live.

Walter, eat your eggs.

Damn these eggs.

Damn all the eggs that ever was!

Fine. Just go to work!

See, that says it all, don't it?

Morning, everybody.

Says just what's wrong with women today.

Don't know how to build your man up,

make them feel like they can be somebody,

-like they can do something.

-You know, not all women are like that.

Just like there are some men

who actually do something.

No thanks to their women.

l'm gonna start timing people.

You should get up earlier.

Anybody ever tell you, you

a horrible-looking chick in the morning?

Mama left early this morning?

Yeah, her last day.

So how's school coming?

Lovely, just lovely.

As if you really care.

l was just wondering if you made up

your mind and everything.

Not too many girls who decide

to become a doctor.

Have we figured out exactly how much

medical school is gonna cost?

Walter, why don't you leave your sister

alone and get on to work?

You know that check coming tomorrow.

The money belongs to Mama, Walter.

She can do with it whatever she wants

or do nothing at all.

Maybe just nail the check up

on the wall and stare at it all day.

lt's hers and not ours. Hers.

Well, now ain't we just

the considerate daughter?

You just got your mother's best

interest at heart, don't you, girl?

But it's okay if Mama want to

take a few thousand dollars of her money

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