In the original script, Beneatha chooses to wear her hair natural—in an Afro, the first ever on the American stage; however, the material was cut from the first production and later restored in Beneatha anticipates the next generation of African American women intellectuals.
Beneatha evokes critical character traits of the play's main characters, Lena and Walter Lee. Her atheistic views reveal the complex authoritarian and traditional values held by her mother. Beneatha's plans to study medicine elicit her brother's sexist comment that she should be satisfied with nursing. In the last act, Beneatha's disavowal of her brother's demeaning plans rouses Mama to deliver the most eloquent speech in the play as she reminds Beneatha that her brother deserves her love especially when he is suffering the most.
Beneatha remains an unusually provocative depiction of the independent African American woman. Doris E. Abramson, Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre, —, , pp. Robert Nemiroff, , pp. View all related items in Oxford Reference ». Search for: 'Beneatha Younger' in Oxford Reference ». Ruth acts as peacemaker in most of the explosive family situations.
Very low-key, Ruth reveals her strongest emotions only when she learns of the possibility of their moving to a better neighborhood. Living in a household with three generations in conflict, Travis skillfully plays each adult against the other and is, as a result, somewhat "spoiled. Walter works as a chauffeur and drinks a bit too much at times.
She is a college student planning to go to medical school. The only family member privileged to have the opportunity for a higher education, she is sometimes a little overbearing in the pride she takes in being an "intellectual. Lena's Mama's every action is borne out of her abiding love for her family, her deep religious convictions, and her strong will that is surpassed only by her compassion. Mannerly, good looking, and personable, he is well liked by all members of the Younger household.
George Murchison Beneatha's other boyfriend, he too is a college student. Beneatha is an attractive college student who provides a young, independent, feminist perspective, and her desire to become a doctor demonstrates her great ambition. Throughout the play, she searches for her identity. She dates two very different men: Joseph Asagai and George Murchison.
Beneatha prides herself on being independent. Asagai criticizes her for being both too independent by not wanting to marry and too dependent by not wanting to leave America. When she realizes this dependence, she gains a new perspective on her dream and a new energy to attain it in her own way.
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