A Raisin In The Sun Character Analysis Essay
In Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, the protagonist Walter is portrayed as stubborn, childish, and later determined to show his transition into manhood.
Living in the Southside of Chicago, the play follows the Younger family’s daily struggles. The main struggle they go through is the passing of Mama’s husband Walter Senior. Due to his death, they get a $10,000 insurance check, and they decide to buy a house and start Beneatha's dream of becoming a doctor. While also helping out Walter’s dream of owning a successful liquor store. The purpose of the character Walter, is to prove that no matter how old you are, people always struggle with becoming an adult and you are never really fully an adult.
During act one, scene one, when Walter first mentions his liquor store idea to Ruth, he insults women just because Ruth does not approve of his idea. Ruth clearly insults his idea by calling it a graft, which causes Walter to respond with “Don't call it that. See there, that just goes to show you what women understand about the world” (11).This just shows how stubborn and childlike he was. If he really wanted Ruth to approve and encourage him on his liquor store idea, he would have just accepted that and talked to her about it again later. He did not have to insult women just because Ruth did not agree with his idea. No one in his family was agreeing with his dream of owning a liquor store, therefore, he became independent and still tried to …show more content…
Mama then suggested to Walter, he should talk to Ruth again. He automatically gets defensive, “WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE LISTEN TO ME TODAY!” (39). Once again proving my point of him not, yet becoming a “real man”. No one should ever yell at their parents. He is 35 years old still yelling and arguing with his parents. By him yelling at his mom, this is representing how he is
Living in the Southside of Chicago, the play follows the Younger family’s daily struggles. The main struggle they go through is the passing of Mama’s husband Walter Senior. Due to his death, they get a $10,000 insurance check, and they decide to buy a house and start Beneatha's dream of becoming a doctor. While also helping out Walter’s dream of owning a successful liquor store. The purpose of the character Walter, is to prove that no matter how old you are, people always struggle with becoming an adult and you are never really fully an adult.
During act one, scene one, when Walter first mentions his liquor store idea to Ruth, he insults women just because Ruth does not approve of his idea. Ruth clearly insults his idea by calling it a graft, which causes Walter to respond with “Don't call it that. See there, that just goes to show you what women understand about the world” (11).This just shows how stubborn and childlike he was. If he really wanted Ruth to approve and encourage him on his liquor store idea, he would have just accepted that and talked to her about it again later. He did not have to insult women just because Ruth did not agree with his idea. No one in his family was agreeing with his dream of owning a liquor store, therefore, he became independent and still tried to …show more content…
Mama then suggested to Walter, he should talk to Ruth again. He automatically gets defensive, “WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE LISTEN TO ME TODAY!” (39). Once again proving my point of him not, yet becoming a “real man”. No one should ever yell at their parents. He is 35 years old still yelling and arguing with his parents. By him yelling at his mom, this is representing how he is