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.