he totem pole and wants to be able to give his son the luxuries of life. While on the other hand Ruth and Mama work in kitchens and do house work for white families. And finally, Beneatha is going to school to become a doctor, and all she gets from Walter is harassment because she is a black female. At one time he even say, Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy 'bout messing 'round with sick people -- then go be a nurse like other women (p. 1813). He himself is discriminating his own sister by stereotyping a womans place in society. Although it is illegal, this type of discrimination is still fairly common today . If a person of a minority and a white person both go in for an interview for two positions, it is more likely that the white person will get the better of the two jobs. Just because a company says that they are an, equal opportunity business, does not mean that they always stick to it because there is usually a way to get around most things. Another way that they are discriminated against is prices for the necessary items needed in life. As Margaret B. Wilkerson points out in her introduction to the original screen play, there is a scene where Mama stops to buy fruit at the local market, but is angered by the flippant and disrespectful white clerk as well as the poor quality and high price of fruit that, as she says, was at the Last Supper (p. xxxii). So Mama went out of her way and went to an open market in Chicagos far Southside, to an open air market that was ran by probably predominately black seller that had top quality produce for a fraction of the cost. You can see this trend in prices even today. Not only is it towards minorities, but this also affects whites. It seems to be the wealthier the community the cheaper the products are. A product in a predominately black community will cost a little more than it would in a lower class white community and that will cost a little more t...
