Examine one of the interactions between Walter and Ruth in terms of male chauvinism or self/group-hate.
According to Baraka “Walter Lee and Ruth’s dialogues lay out his male
chauvinism [and even self- and group-hate] born of the frustration of too many dreams too long deferred: the powerlessness of black people to control their own fate or that of their families in capitalist America where race is place, white is right, and money makes and defines the man.”