Walter And Mama In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

“A Raisin In The Sun” is a play in which Lorraine Hansberry, the author, shows on how money can have a major effect on many people’s lives. Walter, the main character, experiences on how the theme Money and Mortality has affected his own life. In the play “A Raisin In The Sun” Lorraine Hansberry uses certain characters to show the theme Money and Mortality, such as Walter, Beneatha and Mama.

     A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, tries to give readers an overall look of what it feels like to be given a chance to make a difference. The play includes Mama, the stronghold of the family, her son, Walter Lee, a dreamer, Beneatha, Walter’s sister, who wants to be a doctor, his wife, Ruth, a realist, and their son, Travis. The play setting is like that of The Glass Menagerie, and is set in post WWII and tells how Mama wants to make a difference for her family. A Raisin in the Sun, unlike The Glass Menagerie, tells how Mama wants something for her entire family to enjoy, unlike Amanda, who wants her family to provide for her own enjoyment. In A Raisin in the Sun, Mama inherits ten-thousand dollars, due to her husband death, and buys a nice house in a white neighborhood. She entrusts Walter Lee, with sixty-five hundred dollars of the ten-thousand dollars, to put into the bank. Mama tells Walter Lee to divide it between him and Beneatha. Instead of putting the money where Mama told him, Walter decides to invest it with friends, in which, he ends up getting scammed. In turn, this made it difficult for the family to decide whether to move into the house or not. Mama lets Walter Lee make the decision to move into the house or to give up. He realizes at the end of the play that this was for his family more

He envies Mama’s role as leader of the house and wants it for himself. Despite receiving much ridicule from his family Walter still seeks their approval and praise. A prime example of the ridicule Walter receives is when Mama says he is a “Disgrace to his father’s memory” (p.75). Here Mama has questioned Walter’s manhood and pointed out that he does not lead the family like his father would. Walter is unable to convince Ruth to not get an abortion prior to finding out about their new home in Clybourne Park. Likewise Walter wants to use the money to buy a liquor store, but Mama shows her dominance by rejecting his idea. Due to Walter’s inability to achieve his dreams, he confides in alcohol as his solution. He also belittles Ruth and Beneatha to make himself appear stronger and more powerful. This behavior is quite similar to that of

According to Roy Disney, “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” This is an excellent representation of the characters in A Raisin In the Sun, all of whom have similar goals of success, but seek different pathways to that success according to their individual values. Walter knows what means a lot to him and this makes it easier for him to make his decision the end about what to do. The play A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry, in the 1950’s and takes place in Chicago surrounding the circumstances of the Younger family. When the family gets the final check of $10,000 as compensation for the head of the family’s death, Mama really thinks that for the best interest of her family that it should be used for a house, but Walter’s sees

When Ruth, Beneatha, and Mama see Walter acting like this, they are shocked and are disappointed in how he is acting. Walter tries to cope with the current situation he is in, and he realizes that his family is by his side and that is what matters to him in that moment.

`s are Walter Lee Younger and Lena Younger. In Raisin in the Sun Mama and Walter’s American dreams conflict and impact the family through materialism and desire to be the ideal American family in society.

Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, relates the story of a working-class African-American family with dreams. They are willing to rebel against the position that society has forced on them because of their race and class in order to fulfill their dreams. Walter Younger is a chauffeur who "can find no peace with that part of society which seems to permit him and no entry into that which has willfully excluded him" (Willie Loman 23). He wants to rise into wealth and live as his employer, Mr. Arnold, does. Walter feels as if he is going crazy at times. He tells Mama, "sometimes it's like I can see the future stretched out in front of me-just plain as day.... Hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me- a

“ A Raisin in the Sun” is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry about the life of an African American family during the era of segregation. The play starts off with the Younger family receiving a 10,000 dollar check from Mr. Younger’s insurance policy. The family argues over what they are going to do with it. Mama wants to buy a house with it, Walter wants to invest in a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to use the money to go to medical school. The contrast of the characters’ personalities fuels the conflict and drives the story forward. Beneatha is a young college student and the sister of Walter. She has a dream of becoming a doctor. Beneatha is a dynamic character who is easily influenced by her family and the people

In the book A Raisin in the Sun by Larraine Hansberry, Walter and Mama are the two most influential characters to the plot. Walter is obnoxious and always thinks about himself while Mama is forceful and very strict. They both play a major role in the story. Both have changed or impacted the plot and characters feelings and or thoughts. Without them in the story it would be very different.

The idea of family is a central theme in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry alludes to the Old Testament book of Ruth in her play to magnify “the value of having a home and family”(Ardolino 181). The Younger family faces hardships that in the moment seem to tear them apart from one another, but through everything, they stick together. The importance of family is amplified by the choices of Walter and Beneatha because they appear to initiate fatal cracks in the Younger family’s foundation, but Mama is the cement who encourages her family to pull together as one unit. The hardships of the family help develop a sense of unity for the Younger household.

The drama A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, shows the life of the Youngers, an African-American family living on the Southside of Chicago in the 1950s. In the beginning, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. This money comes from the deceased Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Each of the adult members of the family has an idea as to what he or she would like to do with this money. Mama, wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she shared with her husband. Mama’s son, Walter Lee, would rather use the money to invest in a liquor store with his friends. He believes that the investment will solve the family’s financial problems forever. Beneatha, Walter’s sister and Mama’s daughter, wants to use the money for her medical school tuition. Ruth, Walter’s wife, discovers that she is pregnant, but

A Raisin in the Sun is one of the most acclaimed plays written by Hansberry during the Civil rights movement which is around the time the story taking place where the Younger family face racial discrimination, poverty, and cultural conflict. A theme that was constantly referenced in A Raisin in the Sun is the harsh and long lasting conflict between money and morality through the development of the character Walter, the man of the Younger family. Throughout the play Walter strongly represent the conflict between money and morality of his actions such as believing that money is the way of life, risking the family by using all the insurance money, and redeeming himself through his action at the last scene of the play.

Walter is upset about what Mama has done. She chose to fulfill her dream of a owning a home over anyone else’s dream.

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry the Younger family lives in Chicago’s south side, between World War II and the present. Mama ,which is the head of the household, has one son that is married and one daughter that is not, she also has a grandson. Her husband has recently died to a cause not listed in the play, because of his death, there is a life insurance check that she is going to receive. Her son’s name is Walter and her daughter’s name is Beneatha, Walter is married to Ruth and they have a son named Travis. Mr. Walter has many ideas that he thinks could make him rich, Beneatha wants to become a doctor and Mrs. Ruth is a maid. Mama has grown up during slavery and she does not want her family to live like she had to. Throughout the play, the American Dream is presented by the Younger family wanting to become more than what they are destined to be by society.

A Raisin in the Sun is a play that was written by Lorraine Hansberry and published in 1959.  The play took place in the 50s  in Chicago, this play is a story about a family who do not  have a ton of money as well as not in the best living also the family has had a recent lose in their family as well. The main conflict of this play is the family are all fighting over the insurance money  that is coming in the mail.  The family fight about how will get the insurance money and get to live there dream with the money of the lose of the loved one. Each character has a different dream and each character has an important part of the family. The main characters of this play include : Walter , Ruth , Bennie, and Mama.