Character Analysis Of Walter Younger

Everyone would like to support their family financially and achieve financial success in their lives. Walter Younger is a thirty-five year old, married man who, is a limousine driver and has dreams like each one of us. Walter represents a 1950’s African-American male, who struggles, but tries to secure economic prosperity. Walter Younger has a dream to open a liquor store and he believes that this store will lead his family to The American Dream. A dream is a hope or a wish and Walter Younger, who is the hero and the villain of the play, wants to use Mama’s 10,000 to open up the liquor store. Walter Younger’s family is an African-American family that is struggling in poverty, but Walter’s idea of financial stability could lead the family to

He is working as a chauffeur for a rich white man and he has no room for advancement in his current career. Walter represents the typical man who wants to provide for his family, but he spends his days sucking up to his boss and not able to provide for his family. Mama Younger will receive 10,000 from her husband’s passing and the entire family has their dreams set upon what to do with it. Walter plans to use the money to invest in a liquor store with his buddy, Willy Harris. Walter’s entire family is against him opening up a liquor store and Mama Younger takes a down-payment on a house in a white neighborhood. A white man named Mr. Linder tries to get Walter to take money in exchange for not moving into the white neighborhood, Walter, the hero at this point, declines to take the money because he is not set on bowing down to the white man. When Mama Younger does this, Walter goes into a three-day drinking binge and decides to not go back to work. Walter eventually receives 6,500 dollars from Mama and she tells him to put 3,000 of the money for Beneatha’s education. Walter keeps the 3,500 to plan out his dream of opening a liquor store. When Walter believes that his dreams are finally accomplished, he turns into a kinder man towards his family. Walter becomes friendlier with his sister, hugs his mother and takes his wife for dates. The Walter Younger, who now believes that his family will acquire The American Dream, is a

Racial discrimination is one of the reasons to believe that their life post moving to Clybourne would be a nightmare is due to the fact that they will not be respected as individuals. Nowrouzi, Faghfori, and Zohdi in “In Search of Equality: A Dream Deferred for African Americans in A Raisin in the Sun” writes, “The Youngers live in a segregated neighborhood in a city that has remained one of the most segregated areas in the United States. (2271). Mama Younger buys a house in an all-white community, which she believes has better living conditions and has lower cost. But traditionally, the family would pay more than a white family. The timelines of the Raisin in the Sun was “Equalled only by the captivating characters with whom white audiences were willing to identify and of whom Black audience could be proud” (445) states Wilkerson in “A Raisin in the Sun: Anniversary of an American