Essay On A Raisin In The Sun Walter A Dynamic Character

“A Raisin in The Sun’ written by Lorraine Hansberry is a play written in third person narrative. This play is mainly written to be read by several to an audience, therefore it doesn’t have one specific person narrating the whole thing. The most dynamic character in this story is Walter. Walter changed a lot throughout this book as he began focusing on supplying his family with the things they were in need of rather than his own personal desires. After all the actions he took that greatly impacted his family in a negative way because they only benefitted himself, he was able to overcome that matter and be a hero in the end. In the beginning, all that mattered to Walter was that materialistic value of money, the component he thought was to living a successful life. By obtaining this goal he thought the only way was to get immediate cash, but along the way he struggled and realized it wasn’t as easy as he had thought. In the beginning, Walter believed that the key to happiness in his life was material wealth. He believed that he could find this wealth by using money left to his family to open a liquor. But in the end of the play, Walter decided to use the money towards
(Walter) “That’s it. There you are. Man say to his women: I got me a dream. His women say: Eat your eggs. (Sadly, but gaining in power) Man Say: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And a women will say: Eat your eggs and go to work. (Passionately now) Man say: I got to change my life, I’m choking to death, baby! And his women say-- (In utter anguish as he brings his fists down on his thighs)-- Your eggs is getting cold!” (Hansberry 21). In this scene towards the beginning of the play, Walter is talking with his wife about how he has a dream which happens to be opening a liquor. His wife is not on board with this because she wants to use the money to expand their home. But towards the end of the play, he changes his mind and does what is right for his