If your ambition is too strong, it can potentially ruin the relationship with your family. In the play, Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, her message that strong ambition can ruin relationships with your family is shown through the use of her characterization of Walter by showing that his strong ambition and dream of more money and a better life destroyed his relationship with his family. At the end of the play, Walter eventually redeems himself by finally releasing himself from these dreams that he has.
Walter had a lot of arguments with his family members about what he thought was the best course of action to take and his own dreams. For example, he says “That is just what is wrong with the colored woman in this world…Don’t understand about building their men up and making ‘em feel like they somebody.” (pg). After this argument with his wife Ruth, she tells him that he always says the same stuff, and he then proceeds to berate her and Black women for not caring about his own ambition. Showing us that when someone doesn’t care or listen to his own ambitions and
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“Please don't do it…Man, not with that money…of, God…Don’t let it be true.” “Yessss! All of it…It’s all gone mama”. He trusted and gave a stranger the leftover 6500 dollars that his mama gave to him and Bentha for her college and tried to invest it. He ended up losing all of it because the guy took off with it. His own ambition of investing caused him to use all of their money that they received for his own good and ended up losing it. This obviously destroyed his relationship with his sister and this unforgivable action had left Mama with a great feeling of disappointment. His actions and decision to try and invest all of their money had backfired, and now they couldn’t use any of it for college, mortgage, anything. “For what? What do you want to see him