she is "nothing" (3.1).
             Her dependence rests on more than the money. She also resides with her mother, without whom she would not have shelter or means of attending school. Beneatha also goes as far as to depend on "crooks and thieves and just plain idiots who will come into power and steal and plunder" and ruin her future (3.1). If a crook could diminish her dreams by stealing the money, all of her dreams could be stolen in t
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