A Raisin In The Sun Rite Of Passage

Walter Lee is stubborn, very ambitious, and filled with pride at the beginning of the story. He strives for success with the money “Mama,” also known as Lena got from the life insurance from her husband who recently passed away. Walter was so selfish all he wanted was to provide a better life for he and his family because he was not satisfied with their current standards of living. He wants more and wishes to become rich because he believes he never had enough growing up, but at the same time he wants to provide money and societal respect for his family. He put his trust with the money into a person who betrayed him and he ended up losing it all including his sisters schooling money. After this scene in the play Walter was at his lowest point,

At the beginning of the play Walter Lee younger believes that manhood stems from being able to provide for one’s family. We first encounter Walter’s concept of manhood when he and Ruth are arguing over breakfast and Walter says, “I’m thirty-five years old; I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live…” (Hansberry 478). This begins to show his ideas because it shows that he is getting older and he still cannot provide for his family. One thing that might hurt Walter the most

Walter Lee Younger a 35 year old man, who lives in a house with his Wife Ruth, Son Travis, Sister Beneatha, and Mother Lena. Walter is greedy, ambitious, and shallow. He obviously shows these characteristics during the play by the way he act towards his family and outsiders. For example, since Walter is unsatisfied with his life he takes it out on Ruth when she was simply just telling him to eat his eggs because they're going to get cold, “ This morning, I was lookin’ in the mirror and thinking about it… I’m thirty - five years old; I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room and all I got to give to him is stories about how rich white people live.” Walter says selfishly to Ruth after ignoring what is saying. After Walter complains to Ruth about his life she simply says again to him again, “Eat your eggs, Walter.” He became very angry after hearing Ruth repeat this sentence a few times, jumps up, slams on the table and says, “DAMN MY EGGS-- DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS! This shows that if Walter is not happy then he will make sure that everyone in his family will know. Also, Working for a rich white man as a chauffeur, puts Walter down because he only wishes he could be the person in the back seat. “Honey, you never say nothing new. I listen to you every day, every night, and every morning, and you never say nothing new. So you would rather be Mr. Arnold than be his chauffeur. So-- I would rather be living in Buckingham

Walter comes up with another plan to take money from Linder, president of the Clyburn home association. Earlier, he offered the family money not to move in their neighborhood but Walter declined. However, after his devastating loss, he called up Linder to make a deal to get more money. Walter Younger’s defining moment was when Mama told him he was not a man and his father would not be pleased with his decision. This seemed to cause something to rise in him to change his perspective on

Even though Mrs.Younger believes in her son, she undoubtedly forgets that being older does not make you wiser in the way of the world. Sometimes being older will show how foolish one can get, such as one’s ability to think clearly and concisely. Walter showed how irresponsible his actions are, such as his investment with the insurance money from his dead father which was then given to Willy Harris who in the past showed how untrustworthy his actions were. Harris took the money and disappeared from the Younger’s lives, proving Mama’s beliefs to not be faithful showing that Walter has grown physically, but mentally he lies in a state of irresponsible

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Younger wants to be a “real man”. His dream is to become successful in business and make his family rich. However, when all his money is stolen, he becomes very pessimistic, abandoning the ideas of morality and dignity. At the end of the play, his son Travis inspires him to value his family’s pride over materialism. Over the course of the play, Walter’s view of manhood changes from someone wealthy and successful to a person who has pride and believes in human dignity.

Then when he does fail he blames his failures on other people who are close to him, this is shown when he makes the remark of, "No thanks to the colored women." (Hansberry 35). Walter fails to understand that his wife gives him continual support, which ties into one of his "harmatias" which is his ability to make rash decisions. Ruth, is a very important character in this story for the fact that she has the opportunity to do something amazing, that is go to medical school. But in Walters' everlasting foolishness invests in a liquor store instead of her college funds. It is this rash decision made by him that causes feuds within the family.

Walter Lee Younger’s yearn for wealth ultimately results in a difficult decision for his family. In the play, Walter expresses his desires to his son, Travis, in a very important scene that was left out of the movie. Without the interaction of Walter and Travis, the importance of money is not recreated in the movie as it was in the play. In A Raisin in the Sun, the Youngers are forced to choose between financial stability or five generations of pride. As in the play, Leon kept the same idea as Hansberry by allowing the Youngers to be prideful (A Raisin in the

A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry, which debuted on broad way in 1959. They play takes place sometime in the 1950’s, a time period wrought with social issues which were ignored by the general public. The play concentrates on the Younger family; Ruth, Travis, Walter Lee, Beneatha, and Lena, the family head. The events of the play take place over the course of only a few weeks, where-in the Younger family is to receive a large sum of money for the death of Lena’s husband. The family is then torn between what they all want from the money, causing conflict. Ultimately they move into a house in an all-white neighborhood. (Hansberry 1959)

Gender roles are an important factor in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Walter uses his masculinity as a reason for him to have a better job, to expect Mama to let him have the insurance check (and to truly let him be the head of the house), and to have Ruth support him. He is also under a lot of pressure because he is the only male adult in the family. Mama, Ruth, and Beneatha show different stages of female gender roles in society. Beneatha is very independent and feels that she does not need to marry and can fulfill a life on her own, while Mama believes that a woman’s role is support for her husband.

The Younger family is a black family that struggles to gain middle class acceptance. When the play opens, Mama, who is the mother of the Younger family, is waiting for a $10,000 life insurance check from the death of her husband. Walter Lee Younger who is the son of Mama, shows signs of disappointment with his current living conditions “I got a boy who sleeps in the living room… and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live…”(1477). Walter was desperate to attain a better live for their growing family that he

In many stories, characters tend to have many conflicts. That is the case when it comes to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In this story, there are two characters named Ruth and Walter Younger. They are a married couple whose relationship is getting worse and worse each day. Whenever they get into an argument, it always uncertain what will happen after that.

Walter Lee Younger is the son of Lena Younger. Walter Lee desires the better things in life and wishes to provide a better life for his son. Because Walter Lee is the leading character, he is the protagonist. Throughout the play, Walter Lee struggles with the urges of trying to feel complete and successful as a man. He begs his mother to trust him and his investment ideas. When she disagreed, Walter became very obnoxious towards the family. He was often rude to his wife Ruth, and any of his sister Beneatha’s guests. When his mother gave him the money for his investment, his attitude changed. He gained a sense of pride and manliness. When his friend ran off with the money, it seemed that Walter had lost his newfound pride. When Walter declined

Showing his frustration to his mother, Walter does not feel like he will ever acquire his dream because he feels like he never got the chance or opportunity to. The inability of not able to provide a better life for his household is causing him to stress, act out of character and clouding his decision making. With nowhere else to turn he thought he could use his father’s life insurance money to invest into a liquor store which turned into a scam. Walter feeling trapped from making advancements in life, he makes a huge mistake and learns from this error. In the play Walter is talking to mother describing his anger,

What makes a person make a good choice or a bad choice? What influences that person? Is it the people around that person? These are all questions to wonder about, and in the end of the script it is all answered. Walter in “A Raisin in The Sun,” by Lorraine Hansbery, is a character surrounded by women who do not understand him. Over the course of the story, Walter makes many choices that change their lives in the story, because of Ruth, Beneatha, and Mama.