Raisin In The Sun Script Better get out of here That’s what you’re mad about. before you be late. Wake up. Things I want to talk to my friends Could I please Come on now, honey. about just couldn’t be important. go carry groceries? Get up! Such friends as you got. Honey, you should play evenings. Come on. You look young this morning, baby. What’s he want to do? It’s 7:30. Just for a second, stirring Carry groceries after school I said, hurry up, Travis. them eggs, you look real young again. at the supermarket. You’re not the only person It’s gone now. Let him go. It’s good for him in the world got to use a bathroom. to be business-minded. You look like yourself again. Walter Lee, it’s after 7:30. I have to. If you don’t shut up She won’t give me the 50 cents. Let me see you do and leave me alone... some waking up in there now. Why not? The first thing a man should learn... You just go ahead Because we don’t have it. and lay there. ...is not to make love to no woman early in the morning. What do you tell the boy Next, Travis’ll be finished things like that for? and Mr. Johnson’ll be in. You all are some evil creatures 8:00 in the morning. Here you are, son. And you’ll be fussing and cussing like a madman and be late. Daddy, come on! In fact... Walter Lee Younger... Grandma’s staying home from work ...here’s another 50 cents. from now on? Get some fruit or take a cab to school. ...it is time for you to get up! That’s right, baby. Hot dog! Ain’t he out yet? Hey, insurance check I think you better get down comes tomorrow? and go to school. Out? He ain’t hardly got in there good yet. Get your mind off money Okay. and eat your breakfast. What you doing all that yelling for Bye. if I can’t get in there? This is the morning I’m supposed to bring 50 cents to school. That’s my boy. That check coming today? I ain’t got no 50 cents Know what I was thinking They said Saturday. this morning. this morning? This is just Friday. Teacher said we have to. I know what you was thinking, I hope you ain’t getting up... and I won’t hear it again. I don’t care. ...talking about money. I ain’t got it. I know what you was thinking, I don’t want to hear it. and I won’t hear it again. - Aw, Mama! What’s with you this morning? - Hush! About what me and Willie Harris talked about. I’m just sleepy. Just eat. Willie Harris is What kind of eggs you want? Could I maybe go carry groceries a good-for-nothing loudmouth. at the supermarket... Not scrambled. Anybody who’d talk to me ...after school then? has to be a good-for-nothing loudmouth. You’re just a little old happy woman this morning, ain’t you? If you’re through eating, Charlie Atkins was one too. make up your bed. Wanted me to go into business with him. What’s he doing in that bathroom? He has to start getting up earlier. - I’m gone! Now his dry cleaners grosses - Got your milk money? $100,000 a year. $100,000 a year. He won’t be getting up one second earlier. Yes, ma’am. Still a loudmouth good-for-nothing. I can’t afford to be late for work I wouldn’t kiss that woman because of him. goodbye this morning. Oh, Walter Lee! Ain’t his fault he can’t Not for nothing in this world. You’re tired, ain’t you, baby? get to bed earlier. You oh so tired of everything. Not for nothing in this world. He’s got a bunch of clowns Me, the boy, the way we live sitting up... Whose little angry man are you? in this beat-up hole. Everything. ...running their mouths in Oh, golly, Mama! Moaning and groaning. what’s supposed to be his bedroom. 1 But you wouldn’t help. made up your mind. You couldn’t be on my side, could you? ...and all you say to me is, “Eat these eggs.” What did I answer yesterday? Please, leave me alone. That ain’t our money, and I ain’t - And the day before? A man needs a woman to back him. going to harass your mama about it. - Don’t be so nasty. Mama would listen to you... I looked in the mirror and thought, And the days before that? ...more than me and Bennie. I’m 35 years old. I’m interested. Is that wrong? All you do is sit down with her I’m married 11 years. one morning... It ain’t every day no girl And I got a boy who sleeps in the decides to be a doctor! ...when you’re having coffee living room because I got nothing. and talking like you do. Come on out of there, please! Nothing to give him but stories! Just say that you’ve been thinking - That check is coming. about this deal... Like on how rich white people live. - That money belongs to Mama. ...Walter Lee’s so interested in - Eat your eggs. It’s for her to decide about the store. - Damn these eggs! how she’ll use it. Sip at your coffee Damn all the eggs that ever was! I don’t care if she buys like it ain’t important to you. a house or a rocket. Then go to work! Soon, she’s listening good Or just nail it up and asking questions. I’m trying to talk to you. and look at it. I come home. About me. It’s hers. I fill in the details. Now all you going to say to me is, Not ours. Hers. Please, leave me alone. “Eat these eggs”? You are such a nice girl. This ain’t no You never say anything new. fly-by-night operation. I listen to you every day. You’ve got your mother’s interest at heart, ain’t you? We got this figured out. Every morning, every night. Me, Willie and Bobo. You never say nothing new. Mama got that money, she can always help you through school. Bobo? So you’d rather be Mr. Arnold than be his chauffeur. So? I never asked anyone We figure the initial investment to do anything for me. on the place to be about $30,000. I’d rather be living in Buckingham Palace. The line between asking That’s $10,000 apiece. and just accepting is wide. Of course... That’s what’s wrong with the colored woman. You want me to quit school? ...we got to spread around a few hundred to get our license approved. You don’t build your men up. I want you to stop acting holy around here! You mean graft. Make them feel they’re somebody and can do something. We’ve made sacrifices. It’s time Don’t call it that. you do something for this family. - There are colored men who do things. Goes to show you how much - No thanks to the colored woman. - Don’t drag me in it. women know about the world. - You are in it. Being a colored woman, Baby, don’t nothing happen for you I guess I can’t help myself none. You work in somebody’s kitchen unless somebody gets paid off. to put clothes on her back. - I got to start timing those people. Leave me alone! - You should get up earlier. That’s not fair. Eat your eggs. Really? Damn it! Ain’t nobody They’ll be cold. When would you suggest, dawn? asking her to say... See? You’re horrible-Iooking ...”Thank you, Ruth, Brother and Mama. this time of morning. Man say to his woman, And Travis, for wearing “I got a dream.” Good morning, Brother. the same shoes for two semesters.” She says, - How’s your school coming? I do, all right? “Eat your eggs. They getting cold.” - Oh, lovely, lovely. Thank everybody. Man say, “Help me to take a hold Biology’s the greatest. And forgive me in this world.” for wanting to be anything. I dissected something She says, “Eat your eggs. looked like you yesterday. Forgive me, forgive me, Go to work.” forgive me! I was just... I got to change my life Your mama’ll hear you. because I’m choking to death... ...wondering if you 2 Who in the hell told you - I know, but you’re so thin. sitting down immediately. you had to be a doctor? - I’m not cold. You know something? You’re so interested in sick people, Lord have mercy! go be a nurse, like other women. Look at that poor bed. I bet you got a touch of that virus been going around. Or get married and shut up. Bless his heart, he sure tries, don’t he? If you don’t look better tomorrow, So you finally got it said. stay home from work. He don’t half try at all because Took you three years, he knows you’ll fix everything. I can’t stay home. She’s doing but you finally got it said. her Saturday night entertaining. A little boy ain’t supposed Give up and leave me alone.