A Raisin In The Sun Ruth's Character Changes

Rum Raisin In the short play A Raisin in the Sun, the major character go through several changes, some changing in small ways, some showing a large amount of growth. One Major character, Ruth, changed in an important way regarding the fact that she had become pregnant. Early on in the play, Ruth is displayed as irritable and not in the mood to deal with her husband’s questioning of her behavior that morning, but as the play progresses we see her gain a hopeful attitude after learning that she is pregnant and that her mother in law has bought them a new home to live in.

At the beginning of the play, Ruth is clearly tired and not in the mood to deal with her husband Walter. She is unable to understand his obsession with money or why he will not just let her be. Very …show more content…
This give Ruth a new hope for her baby and causes her to become much more light hearted. At the beginning of the third scene in act two Ruth is singing with the glee of moving “oh Lord, i don’t feel no ways tired! Children, oh glory hallelujah!"(548). Ruth’s sudden and dramatic change of character shows just how much hope Mama has given her with the buying of the new home. This appearance of a new hope for her and her family has given Ruth the strength to completely disregard her idea of getting an abortion to save space in her home. Some time later after learning that Walter has lost $6,500 to Willie Harris in his liquor store dream, Mama suggests that they cancel having the moving men come and not move. This apparent loss of her dream causes Ruth to nearly break out in tears “we got to MOVE! We got to get OUT OF HERE!”(569). Though the need to leave the “rat trap” house is consuming her she eventually finds through Walter’s show of manhood against Lindner, that the family will still be moving despite the loss of money and the neighborhoods distaste at their