A Raisin in the Sun Page #7

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It's going to be yours

when you get to be a man.

I always did want to live

in a house.

Give me a little sugar then.

Now, when you say

your prayers tonight...

...you thank God and your granddaddy...

...because he's the one

who give it to you in his way.

You get out of here now, Travis.

Get ready for your beating.

- Aw, Mama.

- Get in there now.

So you went and did it.

I did.

Praise God!

Honey. Please.

Let me be glad.

You be glad.

A home!

Where is it?

How big... How much...

When we moving?

The first of the month.

Praise God!

It's a nice house.

It's got three bedrooms.

And there's a big one for you and Ruth.

Me and Beneatha

still has to share ours...

...but Travis'll have a room

of his own.

And I figures if the new baby

is a boy...

...we could get one of them

double-deck outfits. You know?

It's got a yard

with a little patch of dirt in it.

I can maybe grow me a few flowers.

And it's got a great big basement.

Honey, be glad.

I don't want to make it sound

fancier than it is.

It's just a plain, little old house.

But it's built good and solid.

And it'll be ours.

It makes a difference to a man

when he can walk...

...on floors that belong to him.

Where is it?

Clybourne Park.

- Where?

- 4930 Clybourne Street, Clybourne Park.

Clybourne Park?

There ain't no coloured people

in Clybourne Park!

There's going to be some now.

Is that the peace and comfort you went

and spent that money for today?

I tried to find the nicest place...

...for the least amount of money

for my family.

I've never been afraid

of no crackers much.

Wasn't there no other houses nowhere?

Them houses they build for coloured

way out in them areas...

...all seem to cost twice as much.

I did the best I could!

All I can say...

...this is my time in life.

My time...

...to say goodbye to these...

...old, tired walls.

And these marching cockroaches.

And this cramped little closet, which

ain't now and never was no kitchen.

And I say it loud and good!

Hallelujah!

Goodbye, misery.

Never want to see your ugly face.

Yes, honey?

There a whole lot of sunlight?

Yes, child.

There's a whole lot of sunlight.

Guess I better go see about Travis.

I sure don't feel like

whipping nobody today!

You understand what I done

today, don't you?

I seen my family

falling apart today.

Falling to pieces

in front of my eyes.

We couldn't go on like

we was today.

We was going backwards

instead of forwards.

Talking about killing babies

and wishing each other was dead.

When it gets like that in life,

you just got to do something different.

Push on and do something bigger.

Son, I wish you'd say something.

I wish you'd say how, deep inside you...

...you feel I done the right thing.

What you want me to say

you done the right thing for?

You're the head of this family.

You run our lives the way you want.

It was your money to do with

what you want.

What you want me to say

you done the right thing for?

Because you butchered up

a dream of mine?

You, Mama, who's always talking...

...about your children's dreams?

This is his wife.

He isn't here just now.

He had to go to the doctor's.

It was the only appointment

he could get, Mrs. Arnold.

I know we should have called.

But we were so sure

he could come to work.

I don't blame you.

What'd she say?

She said...

...they'll get somebody else

if he don't come in tomorrow.

She said Mr. Arnold had to

take a cab for three days.

What's happening to him?

Where's he been going every day?

Where you going?

I'm going to get my boy.

What's the name of the place he goes to?

It won't do any good.

There's no sense in you...

What's the name of it?

The Kitty Kat.

Want a drink, Mama?

- Want a little drink?

- Get down from there this instant.

- Does he owe you any money?

- Just for the last one, 85 cents.

My change, please.

What have you been doing

for the past three days...

...pretending you've been

going to work every morning?

How long before I have to come

and pick you up off the sidewalk?

You got hurt and pain in you?

I knew a man who lived with his pain

and made his hurt work for him.

Your daddy died with dignity.

There wasn't no bum in him.

And he'd known some hurts

that you ain't never even heard of.

Why did you leave the South?

I mean that.

Forty years ago, when you were young,

why did you leave the South?

I expect for the same reason

everybody else does.

I thought maybe if I could come up here

I'd do better for myself.

I don't say I exactly turned over

the world since...

But you didn't give nobody the right

to stop you once you decided to go.

Even though you weren't going no place,

you thought you were, didn't you?

Then why couldn't you let me

get on my train when my time come?

I don't think

it's ever going to come again.

I don't think

it's ever going to come again.

Now, Walter Lee...

Now I paid the man...

...$3,500 down on the house.

There's $6,500 left.

On Monday morning...

...take $3,000 of this money

and put it in a savings account...

...for Beneatha's medical schooling.

And the rest...

...the rest I want you to put

in a checking account...

...with your name on it.

And from now on...

...any penny that comes

out of it or goes into it...

...is for you to look after,

for you to decide.

It ain't much,

but it's all I got in the world.

And I'm putting it in your hands.

And I'm telling you, son...

...that from now on,

you be the head of this family...

...the way you supposed to be.

Do you trust me like that?

I ain't never stopped trusting you...

...just like I ain't never

stopped loving you.

All right, 4930, sir.

Well, let's get out and see

what it looks like.

Hey, Old Moms...

...let's take a walk and see

what the back yard looks like.

I'll "Old Moms" you!

I don't know if we should

give this to her.

She ain't been very cooperative.

What is it?

Should we give it to her?

- She's been pretty good today.

- I'll "good" you!

Open it, Mama.

Open it, Mama. It's for you.

Read the note, Mama.

Ruth wrote the note.

"To our own Mrs. Miniver...

...with love from Brother,

Ruth and Beneatha."

Ain't that lovely!

Can I give her mine now, Daddy?

Travis didn't want to go in with us,

so he got his own.

Now we don't know what he got.

Open it.

Lord have mercy!

Honey, you done went

and bought Grandma a hat.

But Travis, honey...

...what is that?

A gardening hat, the kind the

ladies wear in the magazines...

...when they work in their gardens.

We trying to make Mama Mrs. Miniver,

not Scarlett O'Hara!

Oh, now darling, this is

a beautiful hat. Beautiful hat!

I always wanted me one just like it.

Just like it!

Hot dog, Mama!

There we are.

You look like you're fixing to go

out and chop you some cotton.

Now come on, give Grandma

a little hug.

Don't pay them no mind. Help me

with these down in the basement...

...and come next spring,

I'll show you how we grow azaleas.

- Where's the iron?

- It's in here.

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