Lena Younger, better known as Mama throughout the play, is a devout Christian who bestows traditional and conservative values. She is a woman in her early sixties who is the matriarch of the Younger family, due to the death of her late husband, Bit Watler. Mama speaks of her departed husband with love and presents him as a role model for bother her son Walter and her grandson Travis to emulate. In Act 1 Scene 1, Mama reveals to Ruth about her late husband's past of womanizing and how she overlooks it and remains loyal to him. She believes that accepting such behavior from her husband was the right thing to do. Mama is self-sacrificing woman who regards the well-being of her family as her main priority. During the 1950s, black women were not