Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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, wanted to get rich, but fast. “Walter: You know the check is coming tomorrow” (Hansberry, 1994, p. 36). This shows Walter’s greed for the money, that was passed down to Mama, to keep them afloat. We see early on in the play, that Walter had his heart set on this check, that was coming in the mail.

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

During the final scenes of the play, Walter shows a dramatic change in attitude after the family buys a new house. Throughout the play, Walter constantly talks about wanting to be respected and not looked down upon, but he doesn’t ever do much about it. Instead of trying to change his circumstances, he complains and drinks to make himself into a nebulous state to feel

Walter Lee, at the beginning of the play is hopeful to reach his dream. He expresses his excitement to Ruth and explains how his family’s life would be different if he was able to reach his dream. Walter talks

Every black male's plight in America can be regarded as a provider for his family. However, society does not afford black males the benefit of feeling secure about providing for their families. It can be easy for anyone to criticize society and place the blame on America for not affording Walter the opportunities of his white counterparts. Walter does not have control over his own responsibilities. Therefore, if he was given all the resources needed to provide his family his poor judgement and lack of business sense would create further stress on the family. Ruth, Mama, and his sister Beanetha attack him from every angle about his doubtful ideals. Ironically, those ideals are what Walter needs to shape and justify his manhood. Without ideals and proper resources to obtain them, a man's existence can be regarded as insignificannot

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.

As the “man” of the house, Walter serves as both protagonist and antagonist of the play. Throughout the entirety story, Walter makes mistakes that hurt the family, but he ultimately becomes the hero. The plot shows how evolves as person and realizes the importance of family. Walter is the stereotypical mid-twentieth-century African-American male. As the man of the house, he is expected to be the foundation of the family, but he often failed to do so. With every obstacle the Younger’s faced, Walter believed money would solve it. He dreamt of opening a liquor store and “getting rich quick”. However, things did not go his way. Eventually, he realized that he cannot help his family out of the mess he made for them. He realized that buying the house

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,

Walter Lee is one of the main characters in the play called A Raisin In the Sun. In the play Walter shows signs of selfishness, anxiety, and bravery. In the first act of the play Walter is very concerned about the arrival of a check his mother is receiving because of her husband as part of her life Insurance. He wakes up in the morning and the first thing he asks his wife is if the check is coming in the next day. In the story Walter says, “Check coming today?”. The reason for his desperateness is because he wants to use the money the check provides to invest money in a liquor store he wants to start with two friends.

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 struggles in this play with not being able to make a good living to support his family. He feels as if the job he has now is lowly and only to serve another man. His pride in himself makes him want something more. “I open and close doors all day long. I drive a man around and I say, ‘Yes, sir; no, sir; very good, sir; shall I take the Drive, sir?’ Mama, that ain’t no kind of job… that ain’t nothing at all,” Walter tells mama this to explain how he feels about his job (Hansberry 73). In Act I Scene Two he tells Mama, “I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy… Mama--look at me,” (Hansberry 73). He then goes on to explain how he can see a future for himself and his family, but right now it is a distant dream that he feels unable to accomplish unless he can start a business like the liquor store he has in mind. His hope in opening this store is to be able to get on his feet and make enough money to where his family isn’t struggling.

He is very ambitious and determined in his goals of becoming successful. At the same time he is very immature and naive. He is also very passionate and emotional and this sometimes blocks out his decision making. Walter is dead set on opening up the liquor store in the beginning of the novel and sees it as a way to better the life of his family. In addition he is not content with his current life. His immaturity is revealed when he argues with his adult sister and also when he has frequent emotional breakdowns. An example of his constant fighting with his sister is when he says “You a horrible-looking chick at this hour” (p.35). This displays Walter’s juvenile behavior, since at thirty-five Walter is still fighting with his sister. Walter is like a roller coaster going emotionally up and down. He reaches his highs when he was about to buy the liquor store. Contrary he hits rock bottom when he finds out Willy ran off with the money. Although never said Walter likely suffers from bipolar disorder given his constant mood swings. Nevertheless while the rest of the Younger’s see their lives going down the drain Walter still has optimism and hope. He views the money as a way out the Younger’s current living conditions. Walter was so determined to achieve his dream that he became gullible and naïve and convinced himself that things have to go right, but when they did not he lost his mind. Walter is

One personality trait that affects Walter is his ambition. All throughout the story, he shows a high ambition about opening up the liquor store because he feels that it will do good for the family and bring them a better lifestyle. Walter shows how much he cares about his family when he says, “You ain't looked at it, and you don't aim to have to speak on that again? You ain't even looked at it, and you have decided. Well, you tell that to my boy tonight when you put them to sleep on the living room