He then lets he know he is not happy-"That's it. There you are. Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: eat your eggs. Man say: I got to take hold of this here world baby! Woman will say: eat your eggs and go to work. Man say: I got to change my life I"m choking to death, baby! And his woman will say-your eggs is getting cold! (1.1.993). Being quiet and eating your eggs represents an acceptance of the adversity that Walter and the rest of the Youngers face in life. Walter believes that Ruth, who is making his eggs, keeps him from achieving his dream, and he argues that she should be more supportive of him. The eggs she makes everyday symbolize her mechanical approach to supporting him. She provides him with food to give him strength to go on each day. Walter doesn't realize that she isn't supporting him. It's not the way he wants her to.
That was Walters's way of showing the importance of family. The Youngers struggle socially and economically throughout the play but unite in the end to realize their dream of buying a house. Mama strongly believes in the importance of family, and she tries to teach this value to her family as she struggles to keep them together and functioning. Walter and Beneatha learn this lesson about family at the end of the play, when Walter must deal with the loss of the stolen insurance money and Benetha denies Walter as a brother. Even facing such trauma, they come together to reject Mr. Linder's racist overtures. They are still strong individuals, but they are now individuals who function as part of a family. When they begin to put the family and it's wishes before their own, they merge their individual dreams with the family's major dream. At one point in the story, Benetha states that she didn't love her brother because he lost the money. Her mama tells her-" There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
