Not even a visit from a hypocritical representative of an "improvement association," who offers to buy back the house at a higher price to preserve the community's all-white character, can alter their decision to move. Once more united and optimistic, the family prepares to move into their new home. She offers him the remaining $6,500 ($3,500 of which is to be set aside for Beneatha's education). He stays away from work for 3 days, and Lena finds him in a bar. Frustrated and enraged, Walter Lee quarrels with his mother and his wife, Ruth, and storms out of the flat. Lena disapproves of the idea and makes a down payment of $3,500 on a small house in a white neighborhood. Lena's son, Walter Lee, however, wants to invest the money in a liquor store so he can rise above his status of chauffeur for a wealthy white man. Lena wants to use the money to buy a house and to help her daughter, Beneatha, finish medical school. The squalid routine of their lives is suddenly disrupted when Lena Younger receives a $10,000 check from the company that insured her late husband. The Youngers are a Negro family living in three crowded, sunless rooms on Chicago's South Side.
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