In some plays the experience of an important character changes him or her; this can be said about Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. A perfect example of a changed character from this play is Walter Lee Younger. Through the trials and tribulations that him and his family are made to face he becomes a better man.
“Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.” ~ Beverley Mitchell. Walter Lee Younger changes drastically throughout the play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. Walter starts out as a person who whines and throws a fit when he does not get his way and turns into a responsible man who can care for himself and make important decisions. Three examples of this in the play is when Walter goes into a depression because Mama will not give him the money to open his shop.
In the book A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry is saying people should take pride in their beliefs/morals and not throw them away but rather progress them to improve a specific trait within themselves. Lorraine Hansberry says this through her main characters' trait, Walter's pride, Beneatha's impressionability, and Mama's love for her family. Throughout the book, Walter was always a prideful man. In the beginning, though, Walter believes his dreams should come true and that everyone should listen to him. He takes huge pride within himself and places himself higher than his family.
Walter Lee Younger is a character in the play A Raisin in The Sun who changes from the beginning to the end of the play. Walter is an African American man that is stuck in a cycle of getting nothing done, but wants to get out of it with his own ambitious business ideas. After the death of his father, there is an insurance check of ten thousand dollars coming to the Younger household, and the way the money is spent is a problem throughout the play. In the play A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter changes from struggling to understand what it means to be a man to becoming a true man because at the beginning of the play he is an agressive, selfish and childish dreamer, but he begins to become a man by the end of the play.
In Lorraine Hansberry’s “Raisin in the Sun” Act 3 Walter has seized the hero role and he displays a lot of pride. Walter is starting to understand that he has to stand up for what he believes in and not everything is about money. “And we have decided to move into our house because my father-my father-he earned it for us brick by brick”(1933). Walter turns down the Clybourne Park Association 's offer only after he remembers the roots his family has in America, and the rights that they deserve. He wants to set a strong example for his son, Travis, just like his father did for him.
This is the final development in the play on the topic of manhood and is quite a turn or the character Walter. In A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry develops the concept of manhood and what it means to be a true man by utilizing the protagonist Walter and showing how both he and the idea of manhood can change. Walter starts out by just hoping to attain material items and ends with a deeper knowledge of what it actually means to be a man. By doing this, the play is resolved in a positive manner and Walter has grown as both a character and a
A Raisin in the Sun is a play, which consists of three acts for a total of six scenes. From the very beginning, the plot line begins with the Younger family waking up, going about their morning as they normally do. The family living in the small apartment consists of Mama, Beneatha, her daughter, Walter, her son, Ruth, Walter’s wife, and Travis, Walter and Ruth’s son. The apartment that accommodates this family consists of a small kitchen, containing one small window, a living room, which also serves as Travis’ room, and two bedrooms, one for Walter and Ruth, the other shared by Mama and Beneatha. In the kitchen window lays a potted plant, second to only family in Mama’s most prized possessions.
In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee is surrounded by three women who influence his decisions. His mother, his sister Beneatha, and his wife Ruth. Although he acts extremely entitled, he is considerate of their feelings and makes decisions based on them. Walter Lee’s mother is a huge influence on him.
In the play Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry takes place on the southside of Chicago where Walter and his family are racially profiled and show us how the survive throughout their struggles. The central struggles for the younger family in their search for the American dream is mostly poverty and being racially profiled against for their actions. Hansberry challenges the traditional gender roles and issues of dominance throughout the play when Mama gives Walter lee the rest of the money at the end of the play. He becomes all excited and was supposed to save some for himself and put the rest of the money to Beneatha 's education. Instead, he gave all that money to Willy another character in the play which later on that he stole from him.
The resolution of Walters greatest motivation being his son Travis is negative considering Walters reasoning behind his motives in A Raisin in the Sun. Throughout the play, Walter’s mind is set on the idea of opening a liquor shop. His intentions this correlates with his masculinity as he feels that he should be the one who provides for the family because he is a man. Although Travis does play a role as Walter's motivation to achieving his dreams, it was not his greatest motivation. Walters greatest motivation was the idea of being the man of the household, to be the one making and providing money like his father worked before he passed.
Mama wants to buy a house to fulfill her late husband's dream, while her son Walter Lee dreams of investing in a liquor store. Tensions rise as they grapple with racism, poverty, and conflicting desires, forcing them to confront their individual aspirations and the realities of their circumstances. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorriane Hansberry, Hansberry uses literary elements such as imagery and the
Act 1 Scene ii from A Raisin in the Sun, the scene reveals two battles and doubts for the Younger and their upcoming. Power racial prejudice conflict, and dreadful weakness of failure. Walter Lee struggles to deal with the unfair situations that rule their lives. The Youngers brawl to attain these dreams and much of their happiness sometimes overrule the bad. The house of dreams unites the family when things become skirmish.
In A Raisin In The Sun, there were many conflicts with Walter in the passages that line with the poem "Harlem¨. Walter was in his 30s and worked as a guy that drove a rich man around and listened to the man's order that he gave him. Walter
Exploring Walter’s Understanding of Masculinity in A Raisin in the Sun Ernest Hemingway, a Nobel Prize winner, argued that “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. This is something that Walter Younger learns throughout the play. Walter, a young man living in the Southside of Chicago has an all too common perception of manhood. Living in a snug house with three other women and a son, causes Walter to want to prove his masculinity. Especially, to his son Travis.
Just within the recent decades, men and women started to fight against the gender stereotypes and started to challenge their roles in a family and in the society. The play, A Raisin in the Sun, portrays the lives of African–Americans during the 1950s. Lorraine Hansberry, a writer and a social activist, reinforced the traditional gender roles, especially female’s, by depicting how the Youngers interact and how they act in an economical struggle. Throughout the play, A Raisin in the Sun, she uses Walter Lee Younger, Ruth Younger and Lena Younger to reinforce the traditional role of fathers, wives and mothers within a family.
