Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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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. Everybody in this play wanted a better life and were dreaming about different but big things. In my opinion this theme is best shown through Walter. Walter Lee Younger is an African American man working as a chauffeur, but is not very happy with that job. His mom is getting a check for 10,000 dollars and the whole family has different plans to do with it. In the play Walter shows that he is concerned about money and has no morality because even though it was mama’s hard earned money he wants it for himself, mama, Ruth, and Benny all agreed on a house and he only cared about his liquor store, and lastly his sister needed the money for medical school and he wanted it for himself. …show more content…

They shared a bathroom with 2 floors of families. Walter was tired of all that and wanted so many things like he said “I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy” (Hansberry, pg 73). Walter is a hard working man and a big dreamer, he makes too little to get what he wants. So he plans on going into business with a couple of friends running a liquor store. He was going to do so with the insurance money the family was going to get because of the death of their father. Even though the house was against him, he was persistent and continued to try and persuade Ruth and Mama. It was all mamas hard earned money and she did not want to invest in a liquor store because like she said “We ain’t no buisness people Ruth, we just plain working folks” (Hansberry, pg

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