A better option would be to invest in Beneatha’s dream of becoming a doctor. A doctor is in general associated with a stable and satisfying income and could help lift the family out of their desperate situation. Which also helps that Beneatha is a kind and generous person, which she demonstrates by seeking to become a doctor out of the urge to help other people. Therefore, we can learn that she views herself more as member of a greater whole than as a separate part of the family like her brother does. However Beneatha struggles with her own identity and her self acclaimed independence, which makes her reliability and trustworthiness as a true good option for the insurance money doubtful. One of her boyfriends, Joseph Asagai calls her “Alaiyo”
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Her insecure exploration about her identity makes her vulnerable to her traditional Nigerian boyfriend, who urges her to let her hair grow naturally curly instead of keeping it straightened. After Asagai made a comment about her caucasian looking hairstyle she cuts her hair. Her new afro cut, symbolizes her anti-assimilationist beliefs and makes simultaneously a bold social statement that Black African Americans are naturally beautiful. Later, Beneatha even claims that she hates “Assimilationist Negroes!” Her suggestibility demonstrates that she isn’t as independent as she proudly claims. Asagai also correctly remarks to her for being to independent on the insurance money, “isn’t there something wrong in a house . . . where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?” With this remark, her boyfriend suggest her to live her own life instead of depending on someone else. Although her boyfriends criticizes her dependance, at the same time he wants to limit her independence by marrying her and taking her to Africa. At the end of the play, she is considering marrying him and practicing medicine in Nigeria. The execution of of her consideration could be beneficial to the people of Nigeria, but obviously it wouldn’t be helpful to her family back in the United
Her insecure exploration about her identity makes her vulnerable to her traditional Nigerian boyfriend, who urges her to let her hair grow naturally curly instead of keeping it straightened. After Asagai made a comment about her caucasian looking hairstyle she cuts her hair. Her new afro cut, symbolizes her anti-assimilationist beliefs and makes simultaneously a bold social statement that Black African Americans are naturally beautiful. Later, Beneatha even claims that she hates “Assimilationist Negroes!” Her suggestibility demonstrates that she isn’t as independent as she proudly claims. Asagai also correctly remarks to her for being to independent on the insurance money, “isn’t there something wrong in a house . . . where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?” With this remark, her boyfriend suggest her to live her own life instead of depending on someone else. Although her boyfriends criticizes her dependance, at the same time he wants to limit her independence by marrying her and taking her to Africa. At the end of the play, she is considering marrying him and practicing medicine in Nigeria. The execution of of her consideration could be beneficial to the people of Nigeria, but obviously it wouldn’t be helpful to her family back in the United