MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman) He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain ...
RUTH (Biting her lip lest her own pride explode in front of MAMA) Yes, Lena.
(WALTER'S voice calls for them raucously)
WALTER (Off stage) Y'all come on! These people charges by the hour, you know!
MAMA (Waving RUTH out vaguely) All right, honey - go on down. I be down directly.
(RUTH hesitates, then exits. MAMA stands, at last alone in the living room, her plant on
the table before her as the lights start to come down. She looks around at all the walls
and ceilings and suddenly, despite herself, while the children call below, a great heaving
thing rises in her and she puts her fist to her mouth to stifle it, takes a final desperate
look, ptulls her coat about her, pats her hat and goes out. The lights dim down. The door
opens and she comes ba in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last time) Curtain
How does this excerpt contribute to the theme of A Raisin in the Sun? What aesthetic impact did the author
intend it to have on the reader? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.