Essay On The Story Of A Short Story

Walter struggles in understanding who he needs to be for his family. He wants to take his place as the patriarch of the family, but he feels incapable of providing them with the lifestyle they deserve. This concern is always at the forefront of his mind, and it affects his attitude and outlook. The anxiety that Walter is dealing with creates confrontation with his sister. He fears that her dream will interfere with his own agenda of making a better life for his family. The severity of the tension becomes more and more apparent with Walter’s unwise investment. Walter is dealing with the burden that he has let his family down, while Beneatha is flabbergasted by the reality that her future has been snatched away from her, and she had no control over it. While reflecting on the situation, Beneatha remarks, “ I sound like a human who just had her future taken right out of my hands! While I was sleeping….things were happening in this world that directly concerned me and nobody consulted me—they just went out and did things—and changed my life” (Hansberry 3.15). Walter and Beneatha’s individual issues with the outcome of the situation cause them to find fault with one another during a time when their family needs to pull together to get through such a financial hardship. Walter is in an emotional pit; his turning to alcohol and music instead of his family for support expands the

       Walter was upset when he heard his mother had spent the insurance money on the house and thought it wasn't fair that Beneatha got some of it for her medical school while he got nothing for his liquor store business. Lena, who always wanted her son to be happy, trustingly gave the rest of the insurance money to Walter. Holding the money in his hands, Walter thanked his mother and appreciated the trust she had in him. Walter then gave the money to his buddies to help him getting his liquor license without realizing that they betrayed him. As his dream crumbled to pieces, Walter was regret that he didn't listen to his mother, wife and sister.

Walter redeems himself when he refuses to take the money from Mr. Lindner. Though he was completely willing to swallow his pride for the sake of his family. This shows that Walter would do what it takes for the overall well-being of his family.

Because of this Walter has lost his self esteem and will to do anything to make his life better. This is important because it shows that Walter does not have a firm grasp on his own identity.

In chapter 5 Walter and his friend shocked the pasture by trying to lynch Richard. It shocked the pasture because he came from a town that lynching people was serious. When Walters laughed at him when he read, Walter had realized that he had a speech problem. On page 38 Walter’s uncle came to live in Harlem with Walter. All Walter knew was that his Uncle Lee has been in jail for a very long time. On page 38 the author explains that Uncle Lee talked outside of his mouth because “so the screws can’t see you talking” in other words, so the prison guards couldn’t see you talking. Also in chapter 5 Walter got caught reading comics under his desk, so Mrs. Conway (his teacher) gave him a book called “East o’ the sun and West o’ the moon” to read.

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 was so brainwashed that he messed up the whole entire family trying to succeed in the American Dream. What is an American Dream? Is someone who thinks you have to achieve by doing hard work in the society. Which is just how Walter is describe in the play. Walter is trying to get his hands on the liquor store to get rich and that he doesn’t have to see his family struggling

Walter is a very important character and impacts everybody by his actions and what he says and does. Walter changes a lot throughout the story. He begins to become very hostile and short tempered towards his family. He starts to lose all his family values and only starts to worry and care about the check that is coming in. He says, “did it come?” “will somebody please listen to me today!!!” This shows that he wants everyone to listen to his idea about what he wants to do with the money. While he wants this, he shows no care or regard to anyone else’s ideas or thoughts about it. The quotes show how selfish and rude he is, also it shows how he has lost of all his family’s values because he won’t even listen to anybody else.

He didn’t have the most normal life growing up, he didn’t do very well in school and was always getting in to trouble. He just could not find his grove and when he thinks he finally finds it something happens at home and just like that it’s gone. One disaster after another Walter is put in a tight spot. Things never go his way. Just when Walter sets his heart on being a poet and saves up enough money to by his own typewriter, he learns his mother lost all the money gambling.

Walter's frustration festers and his anger turns inward towards his family who, in Walters eyes, do not understand him. Walter's family members do understand him and they also want to amass material dreams, but Walter's family members know that it is going to take work to get there.

Suddenly, things changed, and Walter and his family came into quite a bit of money. Walter’s mama got a check for ten thousand dollars from her husbands life insurance after he passed away, which was a lot of money in that period of time. A nice house or a liquor store could easily be bought with half of the money from the check. Since the check was actually written out to mama, the money was all technically hers, so all that she wanted to do with it was buy her new house for her family, but stubborn Walter, he wanted his liquor store, and would stop at nothing to get it. When he finally realized that his mama was never going to give him the money to get the liquor store, he took it upon himself to get it himself. He eventually stole a portion of his mama’s money to get the store, but he was taken for a fool when the other person that he was making a deal with, stole all of his money. Now he had nothing, and mama had only some of her money.

Walter's great achievement appears as a failure at first before revealing the man that he has become. The destruction

Chapter 13 begins with the exoneration of Walter, which later the news media was quick to interview him. He was released and found innocent but many still think that he was still guilty. Bryan and Walter went around to legal conferences sharing his experiences. Walter would sometimes share with Bryan that the guys that he had met in the row were like friends to him. He also said that he never thought he would be so against capital punishment until he had encountered it himself. As much as people had celebrated his release there were also people that didn’t believe that he was innocent and some even sent him death threats. He moved to Florida for a couple of months, but soon returned to Monroe County and bought a trailer where he returned to his logging business. Stevenson and Walter had planned on filing a civil lawsuit for his wrongful prosecution soon after, but in many states people who are released from prison after proven innocent don’t usually get any compensation and Walter was not an exception. Walter soon suffered an injury from his logging business that left him unable to continue his business, so he started up a junk business

The idea that Walter can’t kill Robert at the end works as part of Walter’s character arc. The reveal that it could not have been Robert, who killed his father, is a good plot reveal.

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