Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, One theme is that a mother will do anything to teach her children money isn’t everything, to never give up on their dreams, and to make her family happy. For Mama’s whole life, she has been trying to teach her family that money isn’t everything, but it seems that ever since they knew that they were getting an insurance check that seems to be all they talk about. Right, when Walter woke up he started to ask about the insurance check and when it was coming, so when Mama wakes up she says "Somebody would have thought my children done starved to death the way they talk about money here late...”(330). This quote is important because it shows that the family is talking about money like they are starving and don't have food, but in reality they are so worried about what mama is going to do with the money because they all want it used a different way to benefit themselves or their dream, but some of the family disagree and want to leave it to Mama to choose what happens to it because it's her money and it's not right for them to ask for it or use it how they want to. When Walter and Mama we're talking Mama questions him on why he talks so much about money and he goes on to say “it's life mama” (345) and Mama responds with “Oh-so now it's life. Money is life. Once upon a time

I guess the world really do change…”(345). This quote shows that Walter talks so much about money that now to him it's life, but in reality, money isn't life. Mama tries to