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.