Walter's Wishes (Before the bad news)

It ain’t easy being the only man in a house full of lazy women.  “Nobody in this house is ever going to understand me”.  I have to get up every mornin’’, knowing that I am 35 years old, with my own boy having to sleep in the living room- and I can only tell him stories of how “rich white people live”.  Now Mama is gonna get a check in the mail worth TEN THOUSAND dollars. Its funny because Willie, Bobo, and I got this whole business planned out. Were gonna open a liquor store and each of us are contributing 10 thousand dollars.  Now lemme tell you baby, lemme tell you that a man can not live, when he’s got to drive around a rich white man all day while sayin’ “yes sir” and “no sir”. NO! A man needs to be a head of the household, someone his son can look up to and be proud of.  Thats why the women need to understand that I need to take the money to Springfield.  With the income I will be making we can live in a huge house, with a garden for Mama, and easily pay for Beneatha’s medical school.  Now I have been drinking much lately, but Ruth done got herself pregnant and she is threatening to kill my baby. A father can’t deal with that pain, thats why I need to drink some to ease it away. So now if some black women can understand me, I would be much better.

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Langston Hughes gives his poem "The Weary Blues" a "syncopated" rhythm-to convey the jazz feel of the piece- similar to Jimi Hendrix's rendition of 70s music incorporated both a blues feel with and upbeat style.  While others might say that Hughes wrote his poems solely to convey slavery, in actuality they had several meanings. In all of Hughes' pieces he incorporates repetition of words and phrases, this compares to the book The Glass Castle in which Jeanette Walls uses the repetition of fire to emphasis one of her themes.  The never ending themes to be constructed from his poems include: heritage runs "deep", the blues began with the blacks, everyone is the same on the inside, blacks deserve rights, and what all Americans should deserve(privileges). These possibilities are as vast as outer space, but all meanings are similar to African American's struggle which the Greeks would say was decided by the Fates.  Hughes uses his poems to convey themes about African American struggles, however; these themes can be related to other topics including music, racism, and America.