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  1. Apr 2025
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      This dialogue gives the reader a look into the struggles between the traditional and the modern way of thinking within the family. Right after this argument the personality of Beneatha creates good support of this family conflict.

    2. She h a'toman in her early sit ties, fu -bod-ied and stone. She is one of those women of a cettain srace and beauty$,ha \aeat it so unobstrusivly that it tdkes d while to natice. Het dar{-brcvn face i' suftoandea by the totdl )rhiteness of hu hai, and, beins aoman $'ho has ddiusted to many thinls in life and orercone many morc,her fdce is fult of strcneth. She has. ve can see, wit and faith of a kinA thatkeeps het eres lit and full of intercst dnd expectoncy. She is, in a'/tod, abeautiful woman. Her beatine is peth.lps nost like the noble bearing ofthe vonen of the Hercrcs dsouthwst Africd

      This description of MAMA allows the reader to know the personality of this character while giving insights into the family dynamics before MAMA even says a single word

    3. Weatiness has, in fact, won in this room. E erythine has been folishe<i,*dshed. sat on, lsed, sctubbed too often. All pretenses hut lirin' itself h.Ire lonssin@ ,anished fiom the wry atnosphere of this rcon.

      Although the stage directions are talking about the physical c characteristics of the room, I think it is giving some insight to the hardships the family had faced and foreshadowing some events to come