A Raisin In The Sun Literary Analysis

For several of Hansberry’s characters, money is a promise of salvation, a gift to be stored up and fought for whenever possible. But as the story unfolds, the Younger family must repeatedly weigh their wish for material wealth against their wish for freedom. Beneatha, Walter, and the others, ultimately choose abstract ideals, education, dignity, love over easy alternatives that hold out the promise of more money. In the play,”A Raisin in the Sun” Walter young is a snobby adult against his family for money because, he thinks money is all about life, has no care of a new way to live with his family, and thinks he can take anything that blocks his way.

Walter was partnered with a couple of friends at his work place and would like to create a liquor store around the block. In the opening scene, Travis asks his mother for fifty cents, and the seemingly paltry sum is too much for the impoverished Ruth Younger to give away.Walter said,"Yeah. You see, this little liquor store we got

“ Don’t cry, Mama. Understand. That white man is going to walk in that door able to write checks for more than we ever had”(Hansberry, 143). The author shows that Walter wants the check that can even cost more than the house bought, but, accepting the offer from the Clybourne Welcoming Committee would mean capitulating to a racist demand: The whites have offered the money to the younger because the whites do not want to live in an interracial community. As Mama argues with Walter, Ruth also disagrees with his decision. This money will only assist Walter in his liquor store plans could instead be invested in Beneatha’s education or a house for Travis less lucrative ideals that Mama nonetheless clearly prefers to Walter’s dream. Now, since they are in a hard turn everybody has their own belief on what the money should be