MAMA

Today Walter’s business partner came and revealed the ugly truth about what my son had done with the money. I trusted him with the money from my husband’s flesh and he let me down. He let his entire family down. He told me that I had destroyed his dreams when he learned bout my purchase of the house but he still doesn't acknowledge that he ruined Beneatha’s. Where did I go wrong in raising these children???

Now that my frustration and anger has faded, I have had some time to reflect on what happened. I think this event has taught my family a lot. Walter finally became a man. He wouldn't say a thing back when Ruth was considering killing a child. But he stood up for our beliefs and didn't sell himself out when Mr. Linder came. Beneatha might have learned to stop criticizing her brother all the time and love him instead. Yea we done lost a whole lot of money but its all right cuz money isn't important anyway. That man Willy might have actually helped my family. God made Walter a man at the best possible time. Had he been a child when we moved to that cracker neighborhood, I dunno what would have happened to us. But me, Brother, Ruth, and Beneatha will do fine there now. 

Puzzle Paragraph

Many social norms today suggest that wealth results in both success and happiness. Everyone who has money seems to be living life to the fullest; they have the social status and the wealth others can only dream of. However, this is simply not true as Fitzgerald shows in his story “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”. He reveals that the belief of money bringing happiness is as false as the stories that begin with “Once Upon a Time”. These stories with characters as fictional as pink elephants mimic the characters Fitzgerald uses in his story. The Washingtons have lost basic emotions that come naturally to others: sympathy and love. It’s as if they are not even human but rather monsters obsessed with wealth. Their wealth has altered them to the extent where Braddock Washington attempts to bribe the God of Moses. The rhetoric and suspense Fitzgerald uses in this episode is especially effective because it prolongs the incident to the point where it demands attention. He is able to make the negative effects of wealth very obvious through this technique.