What do the following stage directions reveal about beneatha's character in the following? (a raisin in the sun) (turning on him with a sharpness all her own) < < < [stage directions] that money belongs to mama, walter, and it's for her to decide how she wants to use it. -beneatha wants all the money to herself. -beneatha is protective of her mother -beneatha has sharp features

The answer seems indeed to be the second option: Beneatha is protective of her mother.

Mama, Walter, and Beneatha are characters in the play A Raisin in the Sun. The play's plot revolves around the money that the family - the Youngers - will receive after Mama's husband passed away and how each member of the family has a different point of view on how it should be spent. Walter, Mama's son, wants to invest the money on a liquor store. Beneatha, his sister, would like to use the money to invest on her own education. Mama, however, wants to use the money to buy the family a house, which was her late husband's dream.

Even though Beneatha would like to have the money invested on herself, she does not want the money for herself. Throughout the play, she comes to realize that, if she is depending on such money to achieve her dreams, she is not as independent as she claims to be. Also, her relationship with her mother is a healthy one. Mama is not one to question or to boss Beneatha around. They are happy and understanding. That is another reason that would lead us to believe the stage directions and the line show how Beneatha is protective of her mother. Her behavior toward her brother is in fact a bit judgmental and crude, and that "sharpness" is also a big part of her personality.

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explanation:

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.