A Raisin in the Sun

How does Beneatha feel about Asagai? Give lines from the play that prove your answer.

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Beneatha is interested in Asagai as more than a friend, but she isn't willing to be a one night stand.

ASAGAI (Shaking his head negatively but gently) No. Between a man and a woman there need be only one kind of feeling. I have that for you … Now even … right this moment …
BENEATHA I know—and by itself—it won’t do. I can find that anywhere.
ASAGAI For a woman it should be enough.
BENEATHA I know—because that’s what it says in all the novels that men write. But it isn’t. Go ahead and laugh— but I’m not interested in being someone’s little episode in America or—(With feminine vengeance)—one of them!
(ASAGAI has burst into laughter again) That’s funny as hell, huh!

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