Money In A Raisin In The Sun By Lorraine Hansberry

One way that money is bad is because of the greed that is involved in it. One example of this is when she states “see there, that just goes to show you what women understand about the world. Baby, don’t nothing happen for you in this world ‘less you pay somebody off.’ By saying this, walter wants to make the point that nothing is possible without money. Walter and his family have never had a lot of money before, but now that they have it, the money has come between them. Another example to show how money is bad is when Lena states, “Oh-so now its life. Money is life. Once upon a time, freedom used to be life- Now its money.”

In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959), she reveals the life of the Youngers family. In doing so, there surfaces a detrimental ideology that destroys the family financially and in their overall happiness. In Act II Scene I, Walter, the father figure of the family, says, “Why? You want to know why? 'Cause we all tied up in a race of people that don 't know how to do nothing but moan, pray and have babies!” (Hansberry 532). By way of explanation, the family and much of the African-American community for the 1960’s, is built upon a loose ideology that is a brutal cycle that infects the lives of those who inhabit the area; tired of all the commotion from the Caucasians who, to them, miraculously achieve a life of ruling and

There is no doubt that Lorraine Hansberry uses her play, A Raisin in the Sun, as a platform to give her opinions and observations on the black community and of the racism they faced in the mid-1900s. Her play is filled with commentary

A raisin in the sun is a book that explains the life of a family that is in hard times but some how gets through it. The Younger family is at the bottom of the ladder when it comes to economic status this affects the whole family and dreams and values, but the one thing they are good at are arguing and keeping their dreams alive by being a family and loving and caring for one another when nobody else does. The book a raisin in the sun written by Lorraine Hansberry is about a family that are at the bottom of the economic ladder they have a lot of people in the family so it's hard to tend to everybody's needs. The younger family is getting money, the family starting to become a family, Walter gets the money

The play “ A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry shows three generation of women under the same roof and the struggle each women face, the dreams that they had and how they overcome the obstacle in their life to move on to something better. The women in the family has had to sacrifice a lot to make the family either happy or progress further in life.

Throughout many works of literature, characters are described to go through a rite of passage, developing the plot and solving conflicts. A rite of passage is when a character goes through life changes, realizing his/her flaws and maturing as a person. Walter Lee Younger is a man that goes through many different character changes, which cause conflict amongst the other characters. Once he goes through his rite of passage, he is able to fix his flaws and mature. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, characterization is used to portray that one must experience a rite of passage in order to mature.

Travis Younger, Walter and Ruth’s young son is a unique character in the play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. He was identified as a spoiled child because his parents gave him whatever he wanted as they don’t want Travis to think they don’t have enough money but later, he becomes devoted. Towards the end, Travis becomes the symbol of the “future” for the Younger family because his future represents the possibility of ending the burdens of frustration that have accumulated over the generations.

Ruth, a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, goes through a change in demeanor over the course of the book. In A Raisin in the Sun, Ruth begins as a woman who works day in and day out doing domestic labor to provide for her family - her husband, Walter; her son, Travis; her sister-in-law, Beneatha; and her mother in law, Lena. She is quiet-mannered and lives in a small apartment with her family, where she manages to get by. During the play, Ruth develops a stronger will, and it changes her relationships with both the people around her and herself.

A dream is defined as an aspiration that somebody has or hopes to achieve. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the characters try to attain their dreams but this does not always work out, yet they still live on and create new dreams to work towards. At the beginning of the play, Beneatha aspired to be a doctor in America after she completed a college degree. Walter dreamt of owning a liquor store to earn money, but did not care much about his family's opinions. Mama originally just wanted to own a new house since she had never felt as if she had a big house of her own. She and her husband had always wanted a better home, and she thought it was the perfect opportunity to buy one because the

Walter works as a servant for a rich white man driving him around, and Mama works at home. When Mama gets the $10,000 check in the mail, Walter wants the money to buy his own business ( a liquor store ) and be the man of the house, Mama doesn't feel the same about Walter’s plan. Mama, who is a Christian, thinks its sinful to sell liquor, and refuses to give Walter any of the money. When Walter thinks that nobody is listening to him or taking his side, he goes on a complete drinking rage, lies about working and skips out on work. Basically Walter feels like less of a man because he’s in his thirties and can still barely provide for his family. But When Mama wants to encourage Walter and help believe in himself, she gives him the rest of the money to become the man of the house and to continue on what his father died. Walter is handed the money from Mama, because she believes in him. He handed the money to a friend he trusts and that friend lets him down and runs off with the money. Walter lost all the money and was embarrassed and

The play A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, was first performed in 1959. Hansberry was one of the first playwrights to portray African American characters, especially women, as nurturing and strong. Lena Younger, mother to Walter and Beneatha, is the foundation of her family and without her, there would be no order. Her determination and motherly nature allow her to guide many of the characters in the play as they struggle with their own battles. Beneatha fights to be a doctor in a world where women are expected to be satisfied with less outrageous dreams. Although misunderstood and often ridiculed, Beneatha is one of the strongest characters in the play because of her dedication to her ideals and her refusal to accept another

The play/movie A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is about a poor African American family living in an apartment in Chicago. Mama and her grown children Walter and Beneatha as well as Walter’s wife, Ruth, and their son, Travis, have all lived in that small apartment for a while. After Mama’s husband, Mr. Younger, died a few years back a check of $10,000 was delivered to Mama as a life insurance check. The family is un-deciding of what to do with the money, for everyone wants something different. Walter is determined to use the money as an investment in a liquor store with his friend Willy Harris. Ruth seems to be on Walter’s side, she thinks that if Mama gives him some of the money he might recover his happiness and confidence. However,

In the play “Raisin in the Sun” the person whose dream was most deferred was Walter Lee. With Walter being the man of the house he struggles against poverty and wanting to provide a better life for his family. In the play, it is Walter’s dream that is deferred and leaves the family devastated. Walter’s dream was to be wealthy to gain pride, dignity, and respect. He believed that he could achieve this dream by opening a liquor store with friends as joint investors. He believed that a man who works for someone else can never truly be great or respected. He is frustrated by his dead-end job and wants to make a better life for his family. Walter feels that he can only give his sun Travis stories about white life and how things are better for other

He has a wife and kid, Ruth was his wife and Travis was his son. Walter felt that is he did not make something of himself not only would he let down his family, he would let down the memory of his father. A hardworking man full of dreams, who only wanted to provide enough for his family. Walter grew up in that same manor, a hardworking man who wanted to provide enough for his family, he also had many dreams for his family.He always told his wife about his dreams in the morning, then asked for his eggs not to be scrambled yet she scrambled them. This symbolized his dreams being crushed. All Walter wanted to have a successful business to pass down to his son, he wanted to have pearls around his wife’s neck. He essentially wanted to be like the white man. Since the only black families that were rich have already assimilated to the white culture. So Walter and a couple of friends Bobo and Willy got the idea of going into the liquor business. They would own their own store but they did not want to wait for their liquor license to come so they would need ten thousand dollars to get it faster. It just so happened that Mama has ten thousand dollars coming in for her husband's life insurance and walter needed some of it for the down payment. Yet throughout the play mama would not give him the money because she did not

From the beginning of the novel the entire family is waiting on the insurance check to arrive, but Walter seems to be the most impatient. Each of them wants some of the money, but it was already decided where the money was going. First, they were going to use some to buy a new house, then some would go to Beneatha’s schooling, and the rest to Walter to invest in his liquor store. Walter wanted to invest so he could earn the family money to support them, but also to represent his power. He wanted to show that he was the man in the house; he could earn money to support the entire family because at this time for the most part men worked and women stayed home still. It took Walter a long time to convince Mama to give him some money for his liquor store investment, so he wanted to show not only her but the rest of the family what he could make of his