My mom Read this excerpt from A Raisin in the Sun.
MAMA. You making something inside me cry, son. Some
awful pain inside me.
WALTER. Don't cry, Mama. Understand. That white man is
going to walk in that door able to write checks for more
money than we ever had. It's important to him and I'm
going to help him... I'm going to put on the show, Mama.
Which themes does the excerpt most clearly convey?
A. Sometimes children never learn their lesson; life can often be
painful and hard to bear
O B. Money is not the key to the American Dream; never do demeaning
things to get what you want.
O c. One should never sacrifice one's dignity; to meet society's
expectations, one must give up one's individuality.
D. To conform to society, you must keep your individuality; the family
must be kept tonether no matter what

John Stuart Mill is arguing against conformity. The human being, through its faculties of "perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference", only excercices those faculties when going against custom, against what is known as received wisdom. If someone merely follows the dictates of custom, then he is not thinking, or judging, or making moral choices: he is, so to speak, on autopilot, or simply following the herd. He is not asserting himself as an individual in full command of his humanity. In our daily lives we face many situations where we follow preestablished behaviors: at work, in the street, when dealing with our family. But it is only when we depart from what is expected from us that we become individuals, when we reject the well-worn path of custom and make personal choices.