simple family

A family of three, Ruth, Walter and Travis. Reading only a few pages in, I had a hunch that the family members really have each other's back. I may seem like Ruth is a very aggressive mother and wife, but it is easily depicted that she wishes for the best for her family.
She may not be the most patient, as she quickly builds up anger trying to get her son up in the morning; she may not be the morning angel, as her husband knows well; and she's defiantly very conservative with her cash, afraid to risk a single penny.  But why must Ruth act this way towards her family? I'm sure she doesn't want to initiate arguments, but she definitely knows that it's hard for the African race to get on the road to riches--they just didn't have equal opportunities. 

On the other hand, the men in the family seem less worried about money. Walter wakes up in the morning to the idea of love. He fantasizes about love in the morning but to have his dreams crash by the reality Ruth enforces upon him--to which he says "a man ought to learn in life not to make love to no colored woman first thing in the morning" (Hansberry 27). Now the little Walter is up and about getting ready for school. Travis is looking to his mom for some money, perhaps to buy something he wants. Travis is quite a humorous young fellow. He argues to his mom that he needs the money for school, which obviously didn't convince mom, but leaving for school to tells his father that mom wont give him 50 cents to buy the groceries. What a guy; just what does he need this money for!
Travis leads me to question if he understands his family status and that his family doesn't really have the leisure to money. I get the feeling that Walter is trying to hide the family's poverty from his son by giving Travis one dollar instead, telling Travis to "take a taxicab to school" (Hansberry 31).

Though the family may not live in wealth, at least they have each other.

a ᴖ◡ᴖ that had the power to luminate a world

A delicate and intricate expressions that show or hide true desire. Smiles are the most deceiving appearance a soul could create. A mask that covers perhaps what makes a person real.

 My favorite line in the entire book must have been after Nick gives his only compliment to Gatsby. "First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into a radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time." Everything about Gatsby imprinting smile shouts out details about Gatsby. Reality has finally "broke" into Gatsby and he knows that it's over for him. He need to close the book to his long and vain dream. This smile was his farewell to his "Old Sport" Nick. He maintains his facade of a Great man even until his last moments of lux-. Although in the novel it seems that Nick doesn't realize the deeper meaning of Gatsby's smile but in Nick's heart, he knows that James Gatz has always been protected by the "Platonic" Jay Gatsby. It had only seemed to Nick that their life had "been ecstatic cahoots" but as a mater of "fact" it really had been fake "all the time." The smile Gatsby used to return a complement will forever hide his floating sadness from the world.

All of this leads to the most beautiful passage in Great Gatsby, his death.
"I drove from the station directly to Gatsby's house and my rushing anxiously up the the front steps was the first thing that alarmed any one...There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other. With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental burden. The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a transit, a thin red circle in the water. It was after we started with, Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete."

This is simply the most beautiful piece in the whole book. The little amount of honest love that could be traced in the entirety of the book is found in the first sentence of this excerpt. The rush and anxiety that Nick endured was the only genuine emotions of love. The other characters in this novel share an extreme amount of love and lust for money and its pleasures. It was a splendid choice in using holocaust to represent the finale of life. After the treacherous tragedy, tranquility ripples the weakened community. Slowly people will move on; the wounds created will heal but to leave a scar to remind that the past is always there.