Currently in college, she is constantly challenging the notions of culture, race, gender, and religion that her family has grown up with. Yet even in an environment where a request for fifty cents becomes a family conflict, there is room for ideas and dreams.īeneatha Younger is the source of the many of the new ideas and philosophies that infiltrate the family's home. These pressures increase when Walter's wife, Ruth, finds out that she is pregnant for the second time, and begins seriously contemplating abortion. The environmental pressures are high: five people live in a tiny one-bedroom apartment, two families share a single bathroom, and the building is run-down and roach-infested. Lena has plans as well for the money: she wants to buy a house for the family and finance Beneatha's medical school. The younger sister, Beneatha, currently a college student, wants to use the money for medical school. The oldest son, Walter (a man of 35 with a wife and a young son), wishes to invest in a liquor store. Lena's children, Walter and Beneatha, each have their plans for the money.
An opportunity to escape from poverty comes in the form of a $10,000 life insurance check that the matriarch of the family (Lena Younger or Mama) receives upon her husband's death. The Youngers are a poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago.
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