A Raison in the Sun

When Mama enters the room, she is introduced to Asagai. Travis is sent out to do a small chore. .
             When Travis returns, he is holding the insurance check, which he has found in the mailbox. Walter enters and immediately asks about the arrival of the insurance money. Learning that it has come, he takes this opportunity to discuss his business plans, but Mama ignores Walter completely. Walter had also previously ignored Ruth's attempts to tell him about her pregnancy, and it is Mama who now informs him of it and her desire to get an abortion. Walter is surprised to learn that his wife is pregnant and is not worried about the abortion, because he thinks that Ruth would never really have one. Mama insists that he act like a man and tell Ruth that she cannot have the abortion. Walter is only concerned about the insurance check. Mama is taken aback to learn that his desire for money overshadows his .
             concern for Ruth and the new baby. In frustration, Walter leaves the house.
             ACT II, Scene 1: Later, the same day .
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             Later on the same day, Beneatha dances to African music in her new Nigerian robes and headdress as Ruth stands ironing nearby. When a drunken Walter enters the room, he joins in Beneatha's African dance. .
             The dance is interrupted by the arrival of George Murchison, who has come to take Beneatha to the theater. Seeing her in native dress, he argues with Beneatha about the importance of African history and heritage to the black people in America; it is obvious that he holds Africans in contempt. When Beneatha leaves the room, he angers Walter by dismissing his efforts to discuss "big" business plans with him. When Beneatha returns, she has changed her clothes. .
             After Murchison and Beneatha leave, Walter and Ruth remember their early days together and wonder how things have become so stale and difficult between them. Mama returns home unexpectedly, just as Walter and Ruth are kissing. She tells them that she has just paid a hefty down payment on a new house in an all-white neighborhood.