The play begins with the family eagerly waiting for a check of $10,000.00 to come in the day’s mail. The money is from the life insurance of Lena’s husband who has passed away. Lena and her family each have their own ideas for what to do with the money. Walter, who doesn’t know that his wife Ruth is pregnant, only dreams of being rich like the white men he passes on the streets. He wants to invest the money in a liquor store along with his friends Willy Harris and Bobo. Beneatha is in college and is dating two men at the same time. The first one, George Murchison, is materialistic and snobbishly ri

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