Why Did Ruth's Hard To Support Her Family

Ruth Younger is a very hardworking, generous, and loving strong woman in general because she helps support her family. She’s about in her thirties, but her hardworking has worn her out and looks older than she really is. Ruth is a worn-out wife with a tedious, routine lifestyle. She is a typical housewife of the 1950's, she makes breakfast for her family everyday, cleans her home, supports her kids and her husband as well. Which should be the other way around, but she supports her family as well because she has a job, she cleans houses for the white rich folks. I believe Ruth isn’t so the typical housewife because she actually works very hard to make money for her family and back then the woman wouldn’t really work. Mamma which is Walters mother says that Ruth is obsessed with money, and always points out that she looks very tired and dead. Ruth knows its true but manages to stay strong and work even harder because her family struggles a lot with money. …show more content…
Their marriage is difficult at times, Walter is the type of man who is incredibly disappointed with his life, and he constantly taking it all out on Ruth as if it were her problem. It even crushes Ruth even more when she finds out about her pregnancy. She isn’t so excited about it and thinks about an abortion. Mama talks to Walter and tells him to act straight, and to stop with his drinking because his wife is pregnant. Walter often starts drinking when he feels upset, and he started to get drunk because he felt like no one cared what he had to say about his liquor