Forensic Investigations: A Narrative Fiction

       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 does not feel like he is the man of the house so Mama and Walter sit down and discuss it. She tells him,

It was the midst of day, June 30, 20--; an ill-pleasuring mess had been proposed to the police of Detroit. The corpse of an old, clumsy, joke of a gentlemen, found covered in newspaper dumped into a dumpster. The corpse was dismantled, mangled, and at the same time of many other killings. The detective, Ms. Liu, immediately concluded the cause of death and the murder weapon.

Jean catches Walter on the playground and began to pick on him until Jem came by and told her to stop. Jem invites Walter to eat lunch with them. Jean criticizes Walter for his table manners, but Calpurnia, the family help, punishes her. That night Jean tells her Father about her day and how she does not want to

turned to his press secretary and said, “If I’ve lost Walter, I’ve lost Mr. Average Citizen.”

“Okay, nevermind. I don’t need to know your previous profession. I just need to know if you want to become a detective’s sidekick today!” Bobby Bo’s face lit up, and he smiled expectantly at me. Honestly, I did not have anything else to do that day, and the crime scene was beginning to get incredibly boring. And, dressed as he was, I was beginning to feel bad for the man. But, of course, I was ever skeptical.

It is clear that “Walter” has a serious problem. It has created trouble in his marriage. His wife seems frustrated with him. After reading about “Walter’s” problems, it is clear that his wife has a right to be frustrated with him. Maybe she is a nag, but he forces her to be a nag. She wanted a husband, but instead she got a grown man with the mind of a two-year-old child.

8) How does Mama try to influence Walter at the end of the scene? What does she reveal to him?

“Did you get a close look at him? Did you notice something, distinct about his appearance?” Detective Johnson asked.

Walter uses his animated fantasies to escape his harsh realities. This allows him to cope with the constant vexations from his wife. Likewise the women from “A Jury of Her Peers” try defying their husbands. The women were instructed to stay in the kitchen as the men solve the mystery, and if they happen to stumble on something they were to report it to the men, but they didn’t. The women actually solved the case.

The cops were very coherent when describing when giving the address to Shelly. But in a minute had Shelly already reached at the scene of the accident. Shelly then identifies the body. In the moment, Shelly laid on the floor weeping saying “what could I have

In the secret life of Walter

Walter's quick and rash choices resulted in his family continuously not support him and his decisions. Although Walter knows his family is struggling to stay on their feet financially he constantly chases after his dream that could end Beneatha’s future for college, Mama’s dream, and the new child. When Mama tells Walter about Ruth’s pregnancy and plans to have an abortion, Walter is too tunnel-visioned to even care about that at the moment so instead just

In the rest of the chapter, Walter wrote about his hidden voice. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a poet who he could relate to because she wrote from her heart and about love. In chapter 10 Walter, felt lost. His classmates were talking

He gets a job as an unskilled worker in the garments industry. He is horrified to see in the newspaper: the murder of a familiar customer. He retells the tale to his shrink,