In A Raisin in the Sun, what is Ruth's relationship with the other family members?

Overall,
s relations with the other family members are very good.is the family matriarch and the mother
of , but she and Ruth generally get along as a mother and daughter would. Lena may empathize
with her because she also married into the family. During the period the play considers, Ruth
and Walter are going through a rocky patch because of the pressure over the insurance money.
Ruth has decided that she will stay out of the conflict, but Walter tries to draw her into it.
Finally she speaks with Lena but stops short of campaigning for Walters projected use of the
money because she does not fully support it.

The burden of her
responsibilities has taken a toll on Ruth. She takes care of her own son and seems to do much of
the cooking and housework. But it is the constant worry over money and the living in shared
circumstances because she and Walter cannot afford their own place that really wear her
down.describes her as once having been

a pretty girl, even
exceptionally so, but now it is apparent that life has been little that she expected, and
disappointment has already begun to hang in her face.

As
mother to , she must push and pull at him, worried that their neighborhood will drag him down.
She also has the challenge of living with two additional adults in addition to his father, all
of whose authority may contradict her own views of childrearing.

Ruth sees
thatwill have choices that were not available to her. While she supports the younger womans
freedom to choose her own path, she also thinks her sister-in-law in spoiled and selfish. She
calls Bennie fresh and tells her mother that this child aint sweet on nobody but
herself.

The conflicts with Walter relate both to his personal ambitions,
which Ruth thinks are misguided, and his treatment of her. Rather than treat her as an equal
partner, Walter withdraws from her to go out with his friends. At one point she exclaims, let
him go on out and drink himself to death! He makes me sick to my stomach!

After the money situation is settled, Ruth becomes more elated than anyone else. She
buys curtains for the new house, and she and Walter go to the movies; when they come out, she
tells Beneatha, they are still holding hands. Clearly it is not the money itself but the
prospect of transforming their lives that has renewed Ruths hope, as well as changing her mind
to carry her baby to term.