Beneatha has dreamed of being a doctor since she was a little girl, nothing has hindered or prevented her from attempting to follow her heart and reach for her goals. Beneatha has never needed to search for salvation from a source outside of her family; she points this out quite blatantly when she says, “I mean it! I’m just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything? Does he pay tuition?” (Hansberry 507). In Beneatha’s eyes, her mother and father worked hard, on their own, to earn the money they put up for her aspirations; as far as she can see God didn’t do anything, her parents did. Since Beneatha hasn’t had to work or struggle so bad that she wanted to fall on her knees and just pray that God’s plan for her is to be a doctor, she doesn’t think religion is
Beneatha has dreamed of being a doctor since she was a little girl, nothing has hindered or prevented her from attempting to follow her heart and reach for her goals. Beneatha has never needed to search for salvation from a source outside of her family; she points this out quite blatantly when she says, “I mean it! I’m just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything? Does he pay tuition?” (Hansberry 507). In Beneatha’s eyes, her mother and father worked hard, on their own, to earn the money they put up for her aspirations; as far as she can see God didn’t do anything, her parents did. Since Beneatha hasn’t had to work or struggle so bad that she wanted to fall on her knees and just pray that God’s plan for her is to be a doctor, she doesn’t think religion is