poverty/ economic struggle Flashcards
(8 cards)
1
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walter describes his house as a
A
‘beat-up hole’
2
Q
walter is siffocated restricued by poverty
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‘i got to chane my life im choking to death baby’
3
Q
walter envies the life of the rich
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‘how rich white people live’
4
Q
ruth talks about the whites who go to europe
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’ rich white women’ who ‘wander round europe’
5
Q
walters happiness after he gets his momey from Mama
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‘his happiness is deep in him’
‘we went to the movies’
6
Q
money is the fulcrum of happniness to walter
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‘it is life Mama’
7
Q
walter is deeply distorught by the fat. he lost his inheretence money
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’ Man.. That. money is made out of my father’s flesh’
8
Q
money was never life in Mamas time
A
’ so now its life. ocne upoon a time freedom used to be life’
