A Raisin In The Sun Walter Character Traits

In A Raisin In the Sun, Walter is a character who experiences a lot of development throughout the story. Throughout most of the play, Walter is a self-centered character who never admits to his wrongdoings. He is a deeply insecure man who is chasing a dream of breaking out of the trend of black families living paycheck to paycheck. Walter hides this insecurity with a false sense of self-pride. It is clear that Walter wants to be a successful man, but he lacks much self-respect. He gains a lot of development at the end of the play when he loses the money. After losing the money, Walter becomes aware of his insecurities and realizes that he was holding the family back. He acts on this by buying the house. In Walter losing the money, he learns

He also feels entitled around him trying to be the head of the family. Due to his insecurities, Walter is very rude to his sister, Beneatha. “Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy bout messing around with sick people- then go be a nurse like other women- or just get married and be quiet.”(38). This quote comes from a conversation about the $10,000 they will inherit from their dead father. Walter wants to invest this money into a liquor store. The way that Walter try’s to tear down Beneatha’s career aspirations is a direct reflection of Walter’s insecurities about his current job situation. He feels deeply insecure about his chauffeur job and this eats away at his masculine pride. He also feels that he cannot live up to his father's legacy because of his financial situation. The example of him trying to tear Beneatha down depicts the immaturity and insecurity of Walter at the beginning of the play. The moment Walter loses the money is the turning point that makes him realize how selfish and egotistical he’s been. Walter was told to put Beneathas cut off the 10,000 into a bank. Instead, he invested all $10,000 into a liquor business with Willy Harris. Willy took the money for himself and ran away. When Mama is told that Walter lost the money, she goes on a rant about the amount of hard work Walter's father put in for them to

I had always previously thought of myself as a good math student. At Penn Charter, I was put into the 7th-grade advanced math class which had a teacher who was known for teaching a difficult course. At my old school, I had always been able to get by without really doing any studying just because I was smart. At Penn Charter, I was in this math class with a bunch of other kids who were also very smart and very good at math. This made me slightly insecure because I’d always been one of the smarter kids in my class and I didn’t ever have to do extra work. Before our first test, I was still doing my work, and participating in class but I was not fully focused on doing my best. I was under the impression that I could get by while doing my bare minimum and relying on my smarts. This was not the case. The turning point for me when I realized what I was doing was not going to work was the mid-semester check-in email, where I had a 69% in math. This made me very upset and insecure about myself as a math student. Due to this experience, I grew so much as a student and became more mature in general. I met with my teacher and came up with a plan for the rest of the year to fix my study habits. This helped me as I finished the year with a B+ in math. I needed this experience to realize how poor my study habits were. Experiencing failure in my 7th-grade math class has led to me becoming a more proactive student, and a more