A Raisin In The Sun Ruth Character Analysis

I am so excited to be in such an amazing play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. I got the part of Ruth, and I couldn’t be anymore ecstatic to play her. The director asked everyone in the play to write a character analysis about the character we are going to play. He asked that we include the following what the writer says about the character, what the character says or does, and what other characters say or do to your character. The author, Lorraine Hansberry, tells us about Ruth in the first act in scene one. Whenever a writer of a play introduces a new character in the play they say a little introduction of them. Most of the characters are introduced in the first act. She tells us that, “Ruth is about thirty. We can see that
She lives with her mother in law, Mama, Beneatha, Walter, and Travis. They live in a two bedroom apartment where they share a bathroom with their whole floor. When the play begins Ruth is waking up Travis to go shower so that he can get ready for school. After Travis wakes up and goes to shower, she goes to wake Walter so that he can have his breakfast before he showers. When Walter wakes up and comes out of his room he starts asking if the check they are getting comes in today. Ruth was not very happy to have Walter ask her this question. Walter starts complimenting Ruth after she gets upset with him, but she wouldn’t accept it she just turns away. She talks to Travis before he leaves for school, he wants 50 cents because the teacher had ask all the kids to bring 50 cents to school. Ruth told him that they didn’t have 50 cents and when he was leaving the house she wanted him to give her a hug and kiss goodbye. So she starts to mock him, “Oh Mama makes me so mad sometimes, I don’t know what to do! I wouldn’t kiss that woman good-bye for nothing in this world this morning! Not for nothing in this world! Now – whose little old angry man are you?” (A1S1). Beneatha and Walter are always fighting about something, and Ruth tries to keep peace between them. After they argued about Beneatha going to medical to school, then Walter left. Then Mama came in and Ruth started to iron cloths. While Mama and Ruth were talking Ruth collapse. Later we find out that she collapsed because she is pregnant, we also find out that he went to a place to talk about aborting the baby. The check was to come soon and Ruth was excited. Walter came home later that day just to see if the check was here yet. When he found out that Mama wasn’t giving the money to him for the business that he wants to invest in he got upset he wouldn’t even talk to Ruth. So Mama told him that she was expecting a child and when he