Act 2
It’s moving day. The family is more happy Ruth and Walter held hands and went to a movie together. A white guy from some association comes to the door and tells them that the people from the neighborhood don’t want them to live there and offers money for them to not move there. They reject the proposal and make him leave. Walters friend comes and tells them that the money invested for the liquor store was ran off with by someone named willy and we find out that Walter used all the money for the liquor store and not beneathas school and it’s now gone. Mama gets angry and hits Walter in the face and beneatha breaks it up.