Imagine being so obsessed with owning a business, but needing to borrow some of your family members money but they will not give in. This is how Walter Lee Younger, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, feels because he wants to use a check that his mother is receiving from the insurance company after his father’s death. Walter, a selfish man with a wife and child, lets his shallow, naive, and ambitious nature interferes with his family. Only when he hits rock bottom in his life can he mature and become a man his family can respect. On the south side of Chicago in the 1950s, lives a family named the Younger, who lives in a small two-bedroom apartment with five people living in it and sharing a bathroom with the neighbors who live in the building. Mama(Lena Younger) waits for a check to be sent to her in the mail from the insurance company after her husband has passed away, each Younger member has an idea on how the money should be spent. Walter, the most obsessed family member about the money coming in the mail. He wants to use the money to open up a liquor store, and will stop at nothing to do so. Walter, a very naive person about certain events happening throughout the play. In Act I, scene II, Mama tells Walter about Ruth’s pregnancy, and thinking of getting rid of the baby. After hearing Ruth say that, Walter has …show more content…
At the end of A Raisin in the Sun Walter suddenly start to change the way he acts to certain subject or topics that are going on. One situation where Walter changes his thoughts on moving into a white neighborhood called Clybourne Park. Walter shows change when the Clybourne Park neighborhood representative Mr. Karl Linder come the Younger’s apartment to try to convince them that they should not move into Clybourne Park because the other neighbors might not like the fact that there is a black family living in their neighborhood, and Walter tells Mr. Lindner that they will not sell back their house and that they will be moving in no matter