Scene 2 notes

Scene Two Notes:

Setting: In the apartment in Southside Chicago it is a Saturday morning

Walter, Travis, Mama, and Beneatha are all home, Ruth is at the doctor

Scene starts with Travis wanting to go outside. On his way out he hits Beneatha with a stick because she is killing roaches.

Ruth is very dizzy from the pregnancy and lies down.

Beneatha calls her boyfriend Joseph Asagai, he comes over and gives her, his sisters robe from Nigeria where he is from.


Ruth comes home from doctor, she is pregnant, Mama and Beneatha figured it out before Ruth even said anything. Ruth might abort the baby because Walter won't talk to her and the family doesn't have room in the house.

Later in the scene while Travis is outside him and his friends find a rat the "size of a cat", his friends hit it and made it bleed before it got away.

After Travis gets soap from the neighbor for Mama, the check finally comes.

Travis runs down to the mail box and gets the check and hands it to mama.

Walter comes home and finds out about the check, he begs mama for the money so he can invest in the liquor store, Mama firmly says no. Walter gets very angry as expected.

Mama gives Walter a good long talk and gives him a few lessons and calms him down, and tells him to go talk to Ruth about the baby so she doesn't abort it,

Walter has no words/says nothing. Mama is very upset and calls him a disgrace to his fathers memory. Scene two ends after this.