Money In A Raisin In The Sun By Lorraine Hansberry

Walter is one of the characters to impact the play. His main goal is to get Mama’s money that would be coming the next day so he can open his very own business. The conflict of this is that all the talking about the cash and the idea of getting a liquor business makes most of the family disagree with it. The family would rather use the currency for something more important. Walter talks with his wife, Ruth, and states “you see, this little liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand.” Ruth at this time, is trying to avoid the subject because she didn’t want to talk about the money.

In Lorraine Hansberry’s “ A Raisin in the sun” a constant theme of money, morality and hoping for a better and a new life kept coming into play. To demonstrate this theme is best shown through Ruth. Ruth Younger is wife of Walter Lee Younger a lady that works as a maidher family's poor financial situation, she has to double as a housewife and a working mother... She finds hope when the family decides to move into a better home in a white neighborhood, and decides to keep her child. In the play Ruth shows she will do anything to make her family. We came across some example in the play that show it. Ruth loves her family and shows she doesn't care about money and just cares about family. Showing she has morals, because she wants to get a house

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/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,

Walter is good at what he does. He thinks of all the different ways people can commit insurance fraud so when those cases do come to him he can catch them. When he met Phyllis he went in hopes of renewing the policy not knowing the wife with her killer looks would be the one he’d meet. Phyllis began to talk to Walter asking how she could be of help and than saying the husband has been thinking of going with the competitor. Being the good at his business, Walter knew there was more to it than just the normal insurance conversation. Wanting to gain power within each other has both characters testing the waters within each other. Not only did Walter notice the conversation was going elsewhere but also the body of Phyllis that he says can “make

Secondly, Walter viewed money as life. Money made him think of him reaching the pinnacle of his dream. Walter told Beneatha “You know the check is coming tomorrow” (Hansberry 928) which clearly demonstrate his eagerness for the money. Throughout the play, money is dominating his thoughts and he never stops asking about the money check that is coming from his father’s death insurance policy. He can not wait for it to come and make his dream come true. All Walter wants was to invest the money into the liquor store. In the play, when Walter heard Mama had bought house with the money, Walter was really upset with Mama. Bitterly Walter said “So that’s the peace and comfort you went out and bought for us today!” ( Hansberry 961). Walter lost his dignity and honor here because his uncontrollable desire for the money makes him really angry towards his Mama. As the play continues, Mama had some money left for Beneatha 's schooling and some of money for Walter

With the money being so important, it could fix the money issue that Walter has that is holding him back from achieving his dream of owning a liquor store. The importance of money is demonstrated by Walter by saying, “That money is made out of my father’s flesh” (Hansberry 41). This is important because the money is from Walter’s life insurance, showing that the money isn’t just money, but Walter’s father. Money is also important because it is a way for the family to better themselves and better their

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.

“Because it is life, Mama!”(pg. 74). Walter explains to Mama, who doesn’t think money is important, that money is life to him because he thinks that if he has money he will be able to have power and obtain things wants. Walter’s need of money makes his American Dream different than Mama’s, who really cares about the family. Not only can their needs change their American Dream, their personalities can too. “I-I just seen my family falling apart today… just falling to pieces in front of my eyes…

In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, Lena Younger (Mama) is the steady and cohesive influence in a family beset by internal and external turmoil. Mama fights to uphold ethical standards that her children do not always share. Although the younger generation does not initially espouse Lena’s standards, in the end, they find a greater appreciation for the dignity of her values. Mama’s emphatic proclamation that “we a people who give children life” encapsulates her entire belief system (Hansberry 1861). The theme of life forms the foundation of Mama’s values, and it guides her interactions with all members of her family. It sheds light on what Hansberry herself states about A Raisin in the Sun---that the Youngers represent “people

A dynamic character is composed of 3 qualities; a dream, growth, and an individual voice that he/she may give to the story. In the best-selling book A Raisin in the Sun, many major characters go through change and adapt towards the end of the story. But one character in particular stood out; Beneatha Younger is a beautiful and intelligent college student who has aspirations in becoming a doctor. Of course, the economic struggle in her family and the gender norms in society stand in the way of her dream. Her obstacles and how she dealt with them shapes her personality to be different from the beginning, ultimately changing her expectations on her dream.

The chasing of a mirage is a futile quest where an individual chases an imaginary image that he or she wants to capture. The goal of this impossible quest is in sight, but it is unattainable. Even with the knowledge that failure is inevitable, people still dream of catching a mirage. There is a fine line that separates those who are oblivious to this fact, and to those who are aware and accept this knowledge. The people who are oblivious represent those who are ignorant of the fact that their dream will be deferred. This denial is the core of the concept used in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The perception of the American Dream is one that is highly subjective, but every individual dream ends in its own deferment.

What comes to mind when I say the American Dream? Whether or not you say something positive, the reality is that the American dream is complicated. There’re many factors that come into play, unfortunately, those factors interrupt and can even inverse what you’re working towards. The Younger family is a prime example of the complications of the American dream, they are from the fictional novel, A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry. The Youngers are a poor African American family that live in the cities. Mama’s father died, and therefore the family receives $10,000 life insurance. From what is presented in the novel, Beneatha is a character that has plenty of drawbacks from her own dream; her desire to go to medical school, economic problems, and her dream which battles

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

In the book, “a raisin in the sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry, one main theme is that Money is both good and bad.