"Child, when do you think is te time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't belive in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you dont taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is."
A Raisin in the Sun, pg. 145
This moment was really Mama's breakout- she had always had a steady control over her family, but never like this. At this moment, Mama taught her daughter an important life lesson, about love and family. It made me sympathize much more with Travis. I had been so frustrated with him- when he originally didn't have the money, he had sat around like a lazy drunkard. Then, when he lost the money again, he went off the deep end, shouting at his own mother and wife. Mama's little rant her reminded me that he had been through a lot- his dreams had been crushed, and he wasn't sure how to proceed with his life. Hopefully Beneatha sympathized too, which she should have especially done after his second encounter with Lindner. Mama's speech here also reminded me of the song "Find Out Who Your Friends Are"
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