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A Raisin In The Sun Financial Failure Essay

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In today's world many people can get caught up with viewing failure as a negative when it can actually create a learning experience. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter's learning experience that accompanies his financial failure helps him change from insecure and selfish to him slowly becoming confident and selfless teaching him the values that allow him to become the leader of his family by the end of the story.
At the start of the play, Walter is insecure and selfish because of his financial failure. He shows how insecure he is when talking to his wife, Ruth about their current living situation.“I have been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room—(Very, very quietly)—and all I got …show more content…

As the play progresses, he begins to act more maturely because he has to lead the family. ) No—it was always money, Mama. We just didn’t know about it.” He believes that the root towards the families problems to not succeeding as much was money all along “And we have decided to move into our house because my father - my father - he earned it for us brick by brick…We don't want to make no trouble for anybody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors.” By the end, because of Mama letting Walter know he's gonna be the leader of the house and the household , Walter becomes more of a leader because of this. Walter's goals and dreams since the beginning of the book were influenced heavily by mama's personality and outlook by her running the family, so he accompanies his wants and desires to become a leader and successful. As in the beginning of the book, Walter relies heavily on his financial failure and being pessimistic about money, he shifts near the end of the book, taking more pride in family. “Beneatha saying that's what the man said, she's agreeing it means she's following him showing his leadership towards the household. After your topic sentence you need to transition into your quote. This cause quote needs to prove that Walter makes another flawed financial decision. Prove that his desperate need to make up for his previous financial failure leads to him making another mistake, showing that even though he is trying to help his family by earning the money back, he isn’t respecting his family’s values, nor is he respecting his own after the respect he gained for his father, realizing the money he lost represented his father in body 2. Then you need to transition purpose and context into your effect quote. Then, after your effect quote, you need to analyze the language to prove his financial failures taught him to value his family, allowing him to respect their

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