A Raisin in the Sun - pressure

In the thick of the play A Raisin in the Sun, Mama buys the house with the insurance money. No one expected this to come so abruptly which made it a surprise to every character. Mama explains her decision by saying, "Son--you---you understand what I done, don't you? I--I just seen my family falling apart today...We couldn't of gone on like we was today...When it gets like that in life--you just got to do something different, push on out and do something bigger...(94)." The events that unfolded that day pushed Mama to do this drastic action. Mama felt that she needed something to bring her family back together, what better than a house? Although at the time this did not immediately bring the family together, the Youngers feel like a united family by the final scene. Mama made the right the decision buying the house. This became a driving force of the plot later when the white people of Clybourne Park are upset. This situation finally gets Walter to honor his father's death now that he no longer possesses the money from his father's death. This lead Walter to realize that there was much more to his father's legacy than the money. Mama gets Walter to finally realize this once the money is gone.