Success/Values: Walter Lee defines success as material and financial gain. Beneatha defines success as self-actualization, or learning about and nurturing oneself. But to their mother, Lena, success is less self-centered and lies more in creating a happy, healthy family. Lena frequently compares her children's values to her own and her late husband's, and finds her children to be less moral or spiritual in their hopes and dreams. She does not believe that material success …showed first 75 words of 1464 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1464 total…describes the house, to Ruth's great joy, and Lena turns to Walter Lee and tells him, "It makes a difference in a man when he can walk on floors that belong to him" (76). her words about pushing out and doing something bigger sound just like his words. Even though she recognizes the potential danger of moving into a white neighborhood, her desire to keep her family together overrides any apprehension she may have ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**