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...ssful career, but her family thinks that she should get married instead, especially her brother Walter, because that’s what a woman should be thinking of at her age. Beneatha wants to show her family that she can be successful in life and that she doesn’t have to marry a rich man to have a successful life. Mama supports her in any choice that she makes because she wants the best for her. Another family value that was important was support. Mama supported her whole family and she had a dream for her family. She wanted to get out of the poverty that she was living in and she wanted to move into a nice house. But when Walter’s business partner Willy Harris steals his money, mama is disappointed but then lets Walter make the choice of what they were going to do. Whatever choice he made she was not going to interfere because she supported him in whatever decision he made just like she supported Beneatha. Finally the value of dignity was shown in Walter. Mama taught Walter how to be a man and since he wanted to be the head of the family mama gave him that role. When his business partner steals his money he goes into despair and almost lets Mr. Lindner buy them out of the ...