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Ruth is always very pleasing, she is always looking for a way to please those around her most importantly her family, Ruth is a woman of kind words and hard work. She is one to always tell people when they aren't being optimistic. She is really good about telling the truth and seeing it for what it is. She is lovely in her own way and everyone loves her for that.  RUTH: Now you know as wel al s I do.
MAMA (shaking he head): r Brother still worrying hisself sick about
that money?
RUTH: You know he is.
MAMA Yo : u ha breakfast d ?
RUTH: Som coffee e .
MAMA: Girl, you better start eatin an g d lookin afteg yoursel r f
better. You almost thin as Travis.
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Ruth is a very hardworking and always does what is best for her family. She is a wife and a mom of 1 soon to be 2. She does all that she is asked and does her best to make her family happy by the1 hard work she puts in. WALTER: I don't want nothing but for you to stop acting holy
'round here. Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you—
why can't you do something for the family?
RUTH: Walter, don't be dragging me in it.

WALTER: You are in it—Don't you get up and go work in some-
body's kitchen for the last three years to help put clothes on her back?
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Ruth feels very lost but pushes through all the stuff she is going through. But with all the help Mama is going to help her get through it all. RUTH (having had enough, an embarrassed d fo family): r the
Beneatha, you go company—what' t ths matte e r wit youh?
Walter Lee Younger ge , dow t of n tha f t tabl ane sto d p acting
like a fool. . .
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Ruth is a big storm, when they are cramped up in that small apartment she is very stingy and built up with anger because they can't have a home until Walter stops living in the fantasy he is in. After a storm it is all pretty and fun ti be around now that Ruth has the house she is happy and cheerful to begin her new life.
"RUTH: Ten twenty. And the mailman going to ring that bell this
morning just like he done every morning for the last umpteen
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Ruth is very hopeful for a house. She wants a way to restart her life and having a better life for her new baby on the way. She wants a hope inside of her to see the bright side but she can't with all the negativity around her. RUTH: So you went and did it!

MAMA (quietly, looking at her son with pain): Yes, I did.

RUTH (raising both arms classically): PRAISE GOD! (Looks at

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Ruth wants Walter to realize that they are about to have another child, and wants him to man up. Ruth feels neglected and thinks Walter is acting like a child thinking about his dreams instead of the real future they could have.MAMA: Son—do you know your wife is expecting another baby?

("WALTER stands, stunned, and absorbs what his mother has said.) That's what she wanted to talk to you about. (WALTER sinks down into a chair.) This ain't for me to be telling—but you bought to know. (She waits.) I think Ruth is thinking 'bout getting rid of that child.

WALTER (slowly understanding): —No—no —Ruth wouldn't do that. MAMA: When the world gets ugly enough —a woman will do any-

thing for her family.
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Ruth sometimes is scared of the outcome that will happen when Water comes home drunk. With Travis being so young and Walter walking around like an idiot. Ruth thinks Walter isn't setting a great example for Travis, because Travis wants to be exactly like his father. RUTH: Where you going?

WALTER I'm going out!

RUTH: Where?

WALTER: Just out to this house somewhere

RUTH (getting he coat): I'll come too.

WALTER: I don't want you to come!
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Ruth has one child and he is an angel in her eyes. She will do anything for her children, although she gives her husband and child drivel she loves them and will do anything for them. Ruth does many good things for the people she loves. She is hard working but to her child she is a great mom who only wants the best for him and wants him to learn the real world and its problems. TRAVIS (to his mother): Mama I—,

RUTH: "Mama I" nothing! You're going to get it boy , ! Get on in that bedroom and get yourself ready!

TRAVIS But I—

MAMA: Why don't you  all never t the child explain hisself.

RUTH: Keep out of it now, Lena.

MAMA clamps he lips r together, RUT anH advances d toward her

son menacingly.

RUTH: A thousand time Is have told you not to go of that like

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Ruth is so beautiful on the outside and so bright when she wants to be. On the inside she dying and is tired of see the way Walter acts as if he is some child. She is with child and feels all alone, Walter is coming home drunk and she wants him to be more responsible. She is a very hard working woman and all of it is making her exhausted.
WALTER: On account of you and me, you mean? The way things

are with us. The way something done come down between us.

RUTH: There ain't so much between us, Walter . . . Not when you

come to me and try to talk to me. Try to be with me ... a little even.

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