Ignorant: Money-Hungry

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,

No matter how hard they try, there are some people who cannot get ahead in life. Walter Lee Younger is a man who is frustrated with his current position in life, and every disappointment he has encountered thus far. Although he tries to be a loving man, sometimes he does not know how to show the idea of love, "Sometimes...sometimes...I don't even know how to try" (Hansberry 89). His position in life can be regarded as symbolic of every black male struggling to provide for his family by any means necessary. Although Walter has a job, it seems inadequate for his survival. As a result, he has become frustrated and lacks good judgement. Throughout this play Walter searches for the key ingredient that will make his life blissful. His

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 would be the so called ‘typical’ black man archetype, he tries throughout the play to fix the family’s problems of his own accord and does not play much into racial problems except simply distrusting the white man. Walter differs from the other two black archetypes presented in the play as his character seems to be less concerned with racial problems and more concerned with the problems at hand. This can be seen in that most of his thought, speech and effort is more concentrated on his venture to open a liquor store to solve the family’s financial problems. While his character is not heavily concentrated on racial problems, he still has a disdain for the white man which is what

Walter lives a dull life with not much excitement as his dreams. He follows the orders of his assertive wife and he just goes with it. From the

Although Walter makes the worst mistakes out of any other character in the play, he also undergoes the greatest transformation. His journey takes him from a selfish jerk, who was obsessed with get-rich-quick schemes, to a man worthy of respect. Hansberry shows how poverty and racism can twist and depress people, turning them against those that they love the most. Through Walter Hansberry also shows how these social barriers can be overcome through personal determination and staying true to their

Walter Lee Younger is the son of Mama, the sister of Beneatha, the spouse of Ruth and the father of Travis. Because of poverty, Walter Lee lived a life of trying to get rich schemes, which led to losing his family’s money. However, in the end Walter realized family was the key to true success.

The Younger family has not been able to experience the finer things in life, and Walter, being the authoritative male figure, feels he is at fault knows that a change is needed. Walter’s solution is to use his father’s life insurance money to fund the acquiring of a liquor license. The women of the household are always ordering around Walter. It’s Ruth, Mama, or Beneatha telling him how to run things, and when he gets a chance to take the initiative by using the money to invest in his liquor license, his friend betrays him, and his dreams are crushed.

No matter how hard they try, there are some people who cannot get ahead in life. Walter Lee Younger is a man who is frustrated with his current position in life, and every disappointment he has encountered thus far. Although he tries to be a loving man, sometimes he does not know how to show the idea of love, 'Sometimes...sometimes...I don't even know how to try' (Hansberry 89). His position in life can be regarded as symbolic of every black male struggling to provide for his family by any means necessary. Although Walter has a job, it seems inadequate for his survival. As a result, he has become frustrated and lacks good judgement. Throughout this play Walter searches

In the play Walter Lee Younger Junior is a 35-year protagonist who can't provide or stand up to be the man to his family. Walter Lee Younger Junior suffered so hard and he was tired of they way him and his family were living in poverty and he's trying to take away poverty from his family and try to figure out a new, and better ways to secure its economic prosperity. Walter is going insane due to all

Walter Lee Younger starts off the play as a man who is selfish and immature, willing to put money before family.

Walter begins to drink, stay away from home, and to constantly argue with his wife, Ruth. Walter's life is contrasted by the role of his recently widowed mother, who holds to more traditional values of acceptance of life's lot and of making the best of any situation. Walter Lee's "Mama" holds Walter's father up as an example of a man with pride and a man that, despite racial injustice in a dualistic society, worked hard to provide for his family. This adds to Walter's frustration. Walter now feels incapable and small in his mama's eyes.

The next character of Walter Lee Younger (Brother) is a man bound and determined to make money the fastest way possible. This is a man who values money above all else and ties his own self worth to how much money he has in his bank account. I believe the sentence “Does it stink like rotten meat?” (Line 6) can be best used to describe all of the dreams brother has. We see how he is at odds with his wife when she doesn’t want to join him in his most recent scheme that involves investing in a liquor store. He tells her quite blandly that she could care less about his dreams. “Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs.” (Pg. 1477) It is in this monologue that we can see that Walter has contempt for his wife and mother for not allowing him to follow his dreams to become a wealthy man. Hughes states “Or fester like a sore – And then run?” (Line 4) I believe this line could be used to describe Walter’s state of mind. Thoughts of other rich men fester in his mind on a daily basis and he is constantly hating the fact that his job is something that he believes brings him shame. He is so frustrated throughout the play as his plans get shot down time after time. However, when he finally gets a chance to make a

Walter was a simple miner with simple needs and no motivation or want to advance, when he and Gertrude first met he had thick flowing black hair and a full beard and he also laughed a lot suggesting a happy, relaxed figure. He also portrayed himself as bold and a senior in the

Walter Lees dreams are deeper and more complex than him simply wanting to open a liquor store, just for fun. He does not want to be working long hours for a white rich family anymore, he wants to be able to support himself without dying a chauffeur and depending on a white superior. This dream of his makes him feel like a man, with power and control over his life. He prides himself in that,his dream, investing in the liquor store, will provide him with the financial stability and success that he desires. Although the risk is high opening a liquor store in a poor, baptist community, Walter does not see it this way. He sees an opportunity to make money and quite frankly, have fun. Not only does Walter want this business for himself, he says