All The Eggs Walter Chapter Summaries

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,

. There are many obstacles in the way of Walter's dream of opening a liquor store, as he tries to explain to his wife, Ruth, about what he has to do, "Baby, don't nothing happen for you in this world ‘less you pay somebody off!"(Hansberry 33) Walter's determination to open the liquor store can be viewed as means to an end to his family's hardships.

     As Walter's dreams become bigger and bigger, he seems to neglect the 'smaller' things such as his family. "Here I am a giant surrounded by ants! Ants who can't even understand what the giant is talking about,? (Hansberry 85). Walter has big ideals, but his methods of achieving his goals and ideals are somewhat irrational. Walter can be regarded as more concerned with becoming self-employed without really thinking about the consequences, which may be imposed on his family. Later in play, Walter learns that he needs to set his dreams aside for the sake of the

Walter’s mother comes in the room when he receives the terrible news and asks, “ Son… is it gone? All of it? Beneatha’s money too?” which soon leads to Walter Lee’s admittance of the loss saying, “I never went to the bank at all… Yes...All of it… It’s all gone, ”soon ensuring his beating from his mother (Hansberry 561). When the family finds out about this tragedy, the instant instinct of all of the family members was to blame it all on Walter Lee, accusing him of being the reason they will not achieve their dreams. The family does not stop to think about the pain and embarrassment Walter is going through and Lena, the mother of the family, is quick to bring this up saying, “Have you cried for that boy today? I don’t mean for yourself or for the family cause we lost the money. I mean for him: what he been through and what it done to him… Make sure you done taken into account what hills and what valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is,” ensuring that no one person in the family could blame Walter for the deferral of their dreams due to the loss of their money (Hansberry 573). The family has one goal each of them selfishly wants. Each has a different plan they desire with the money they are going to acquire, such as when Beneatha says she plans to become a doctor. The family knows this will be a costly choice and Walter is quick to say, “Have we figured out yet just how much that medical

Walter just cared about money he didn’t care about nothing he was only interested in money because he wanted to open a liquor store so he was only interested in mama’s money,mama didn’t want to give him the money for something like that. Walter didn’t care about his wife being pregnant because he was mad at mama for buying a house so walter didn't care about anythng.Walter didn’t believe in his sister beneatha wanting to be a doctor he told her to just be a nurse. Walter was just waiting for the money to come because he was thinking mama would give him that money. Mama didnt give the money to walter so he got mad and run away from home and did not show up for two days.WALTER…Just tell me where you want to go to school and you’ll go. Just tell me, what it is you want to be – and you’ll be it….Whatever you want to be – Yessir! (He holds his arms open for TRAVIS) You just name it, son…(TRAVIS leaps into them) and I hand you the world! (lorraine Hansberry,pg.2.2.131)

One of the major points of the play is the importance of a united family. Despites of all their difficulties of living, they stick together and still show love and respect for one another. Since the beginning of Act 1, Mrs. Lena’s dream was to always be there for the family because she loves the family. However, readers can feel Walter’s feeling in the play by the way he behaves and treats his wife, Ruth, who always overcome his bad attitude by her kindness and love for him. They do not have a great life, despite of everything she is struggling to make her family together. On the other hand, Walter does not understand because his focus is money that supposes to come on the mail. I feel like Walter should not be too comfortable by not having

Toward the end of the play his spirit is broken, and he behaves almost like a madman, plotting to give in to Lindner and accept his offer; this action greatly worries his mother. The whole time, Walter wasn’t simply looking for a chance to follow through with his plans. He was seeking support from the system that he found himself subject to. This idea comes up in Gertrude Samuels’ Even More Crucial Than in the South. “…the real drive that is now rising ominously is a demand for personal dignity” (Samuels 1546). His personal dignity is at stake repeatedly throughout the story when he finds himself battling against a troubled family and a corrupt system.

Walter seems to be overcome with a search for power and a drive to become wealthy and leave the life of being a worker behind him. It also shows that he cares for his family seeing how he is striving to give them the best, but that aspect is overshadowed by his greed. I feel the scene also shows the Younger family at its lowest point in the movie. Walter is on the complete edge and is thinking of stealing a community's money and the rest of the family, besides Momma, seemed to lose their faith and trust in him. When things seemed hopeless with the loss of the money, they only became worse as a loss in more than money occurred. A loss in their character, faith, history, and respect for each other overcame the family, particularly Walter and Beneatha. Nevertheless, Momma soon sets Beneatha straight with an emotional and positive speech about how there is "always something left to love" and sets the standard that the family should adhere to. It marks the turning point at the end of the movie

Walter’s masculinity is being questioned in both the play and the movie. It is clear that Mama is the head of the family. Walter cannot provide for his own family and that really gets to him. He has to step up his game and he finally did when he declined Mr. Linder’s proposition.

In chapter one Roots Walter talks about his mother and family and where he lives. Walters’s real mother died giving birth to him page 3. He calls Florence Dean his father’s first wife his mama. They moved to New York cause Herbert thought it would be less of a problem in New York, Harlem it’s on page 5.

What would you do if you were in a family crisis and given a 10,000 for your family member passing away? In the play Walter Younger goes through many different moral problems and has bad ego due to the money that has been given to the family. In this play during the late 1950s, there was a lot of racial problems, black skin color was discriminated and abused. Walter younger shows that he cares more about money rather than caring about his families care and well being. He rather open up a liquor store to get more money and keep his family living in the ran down apartment not thinking about all of the bad stuff that can possibly happen to his kin. Throughout this book making this a great mood changing book to read many sequal of events happen throughout the book.

Everybody makes mistakes and everybody has said or done something that they regret or wish they could take back. Mama’s husband, Big Walter, is no different. At the time of the play, he has been dead for a number of years. Mama remembers him rather fondly, but with his major flaws as well. She says of her husband, “Crazy ‘bout his children! God knows there was plenty wrong with Walter Younger--hard-headed, mean, kind of wild with women--plenty wrong with him. But he sure loved his children. Always wanted them to have something--be something” (45). Mama had such a complicated relationship with Big Walter. She remembers the best of him, that he truly loved his

The speaker of this quote is Mr. Linder and he is talking about who he should speak to Mama or Walter. In other words, he could mean that they should have agreed with him in not living with the neighborhood where they were moving . they should have made that decision instead of making all that drama. I disagree with this quote because life can give us test and it's all about how we react to it. I think that the way Walter’s family react in a good way because this was their long dream. Their long dream was to live in a bigger house that has more space. They way they was very reasonable.

Ruth has found out she is pregnant but is debating whether to get an abortion or not because she does not want to cause anymore trouble within the family. Mama puts a down payment on a house that will better hold this now growing family. Walter is still very caught up in wanting to invest in this liquor store and Mama sees how much he wants it so she gives him sixty-five hundred dollars to put toward it. Walters so called partner takes off with the money and Walter is left with nothing. This devastating event is an eye-opener for Walter and after a few trips to the bar and the sadness comes and goes he realizes that “money isn't life” (Hansberry 74) and that he should focus more on keeping his family united. Meanwhile, the Youngers have been offered money if they choose not to move into Clybourne Park. Walter finally steps up and refuses the offer because he has made the choice to listen and do what is best for the family. I think family is very important and the outcome definitely touched me.