"WALTER: You ain't looked at it and you don't aim to have speak
on that again? You ain't even looked at it and you have decided—
(crumpling his papers) Well you tell that to my boy
tonight when you put him to sleep on the living room couch . . .
(turning to MAMA and speaking directly to her) Yeah—and tell
it to my wife, Mama, tomorrow when she has to go out of here
to look after somebody else's kids. And tell it to me, Mama,
every time we need a new pair of curtains and I have to watch
you go and work in somebody's kitchen. Yeah, you tell me then!"
In this scene, Walter rants about how the money could bring them out of their poor living conditions by investing in Willie but his family doesn't have faith in him and his business schemes. He continues on to remind his mom about what kind of conditions that they live in. He implies that he hates how he has watch his son sleep on the couch everyday, how his wife has to go watch OTHER children to get money, and how he has to watch his mom go work as a cheap labor hand. This expresses the typical traits of a father who wants to provide. Walter is ambitious, dreams big, and can state the painful reality he sees in his eyes.
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