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As soon as characters begin to interact, we can see there is some tension in the family. As Ruth begins to wake people up, the scene gets more hectic, with Walter’s impatience with Travis and Ruth’s distancing of herself. This family is a very outspoken family with Ruth taking control of the family in the morning, Walter openly complaining, and Beneatha never shying away from expressing her own opinions. However, there are

When Ruth, Beneatha, and Mama see Walter acting like this, they are shocked and are disappointed in how he is acting. Walter tries to cope with the current situation he is in, and he realizes that his family is by his side and that is what matters to him in that moment.

Jackson and Shelby support a democratic leadership within the family, despite Jackson identifying as the head of the household. The role of caregiver falls greater on Shelby than on Jackson, due to the long hours he spends at work. Since her kidney transplant, Shelby has returned to work and still maintains her role as primary caregiver, wife, and the manager of her health (S. Latcherie, & J. Latcherie, personal communication, September 5, 2017).

Near the beginning of the book, Tom falls in love with a beautiful young girl, Becky. The relationship that Tom and Becky shared is very childish and immature. When Tom mentions his past girlfriend, Becky gets super emotional and upset because she thinks Tom is still in “love” with her. Tom also claims that he will marry Betty even though

Hank fits well into the male gender role. He is tall, wears flannels, doesn’t show emotion, and he is always serious. Hank’s money is what allowed the family to go on a vacation,

For example, in Janie’s first marriage, she is hardly treated as a wife. After a brief phase of “foot-kissing”, or, being lenient and doing Janie’s chores for her, her husband, Logan Killicks, eventually begins to “treat her as just another person who works on his farm” (Cardona). When Logan tells Janie he plans to run two plows and is going to buy a mule that a woman can handle, she intentionally ignores his hint of putting her to work.

Meanwhile she is also taking care of her father, Marvin, and her aunt, Ruth. She then contacts her sister Lee who she has been out of contact with for many years and asks her and her sons to be tested to see if she could get a bone transplant from them. They come down to Florida but Hank, Lee's oldest son, is hesitant at first. Once all of the family members have been tested, it is discovered that no one can be a donor for Bessie. Despite this, Bessie continues with her life and taking care of her aunt and father and their family life goes on. The story worked pretty well but some of the back story was confusing. The past relationship of Bessie and Lee was mentioned briefly but was not clearly explained and also the incident that put Hank in the mental asylum and his actual mental condition are not really explained. The sudden closeness of the family once they meet up seemed a little strange. For example, Lee’s younger son Charlie seems to become close with Ruth almost immediately despite the fact that they had never met. This seems like an unlikely situation. Despite some confusing parts in the

Another way all three husbands are similar is when they abuse her. Logan is motivated by his pure dislike of Janie. At first he did love her, but a month or so after he began to treat Janie like a labor slave and tries to threaten her and make her miserable. An example is when he says, Don’t you change too many words wid me dis mawnin’, Janie, do Ah’ll take and change ends wid yuh! Heah, Ah just as good as take you out de white folks’ kitchen and set you down on yo’ royal diasticutis and you take and low-rate me! Ah’ll take holt uh dat ax and come in dere and kill yuh! You better dry up in dere! Ah’m too honest and hard-workin’ for anybody in yo’ family, dat’s de reason you don’t want me!” (25). He shows no real feelings toward her and somewhat loathes her. Similarly, Joe Starks abuses Janie as well, but he does so for control over her. Joe feels very threatened and pride deprived when Janie makes him feel like less of a man and so, fights her until she submits to him and he feels satisfied. He relates her all the women in the world and children to animals, and like in this quote states, “ So when the bread didn’t rise, and the fish wasn’t quite done at the bone, and the rice was scorched, he slapped Janie until she had a ringing in her ears and told her about her brains before he stalked on back to the store” (57-58). That is how bad he desires control he will fight with her over anything, even a poorly cooked meal. Tea Cake, also, abuses Janie. The way

tries to take Daisy away from her current husband Tom. He tries anything he can just to get close

In the film, O ' Brother Where Art Thou? by the Coen Brothers, Everett’s primary mission is to protect his paterfamilias. Paterfamilias refers to the male head of a family or household. (Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) The film takes place in the South during the Great Depression in a society in which men were superior and head of the family. Everett was sent to penal farm and has been there for a certain time period. (Coen Brothers) This time of absence has left an opening for a man to acquire an interest in his wife Penny or for Penny to find a new paterfamilias for her family. Everett finds out that Penny is planning to marry again, which is why he escapes penal farm with his two friends, Pete and Delmar who don’t know the real reason behind the escape. Everett states, “I had to bust out, my wife wrote me she getting married, I had to stop it...I couldn’t wait two weeks she getting married tomorrow” and

In this world, there is no such thing as a perfect husband, they can have a lot of good traits but also some bad ones. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, their were a lot of examples of how a husband should and shouldn’t act. The character Janie got married two different times before she married the guy she really felt infatuated for. Although he wasn’t the perfect husband, his traits outweighed the other two guys. In her first marriage with a man named Logan Killicks, she was not allowed to have any input in the marriage therefore did not have the feelings which a relationship really needs. Her second marriage was a lot better than the one with Logan Killicks, but with Joe Starks, he was completely controlling over her

are married, but Tom is having an affair with another woman from “The Valley of Ashes” where this woman lives at the top of a gas station with her husband. With this continues problem, Daisy

In the film, O ' Brother Where Art Thou? by the Coen Brothers, Everett’s primary mission is to protect his paterfamilias. Paterfamilias refers to the male head of a family or household. (Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) The film takes place in the South during the Great Depression in a society in which men were superior and head of the family. Everett was sent to penal farm and has been there for a certain amount of time. (Coen Brothers) This time of absence has left an opening for a man to acquire an interest in his wife Penny or for Penny to find a new paterfamilias for her family. Everett finds out that Penny is planning to marry again, which is why he escapes penal farm with his two friends, Pete and Delmar who don’t know the real reason behind the escape. Everett states, “I had to bust out, my wife wrote me she getting married, I had to stop it...I couldn’t wait two weeks she getting married tomorrow” and that there

Walter begins to drink, stay away from home, and to constantly argue with his wife, Ruth. Walter's life is contrasted by the role of his recently widowed mother, who holds to more traditional values of acceptance of life's lot and of making the best of any situation. Walter Lee's "Mama" holds Walter's father up as an example of a man with pride and a man that, despite racial injustice in a dualistic society, worked hard to provide for his family. This adds to Walter's frustration. Walter now feels incapable and small in his mama's eyes.

Brewster is upset at himself for leaving Cody with Uncle Hoit. He feels sad that he can’t hate his uncle and that he can’t even squish a bug. He is mad at himself for having this power that makes him take away the pain that everyone he cares about has. But he knows that he can’t stop what he thinks about Uncle Hoit even though he tires to.