Walter Lee Younger Research Paper
The Unique Contribution of Walter Lee Younger Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family encompassed about in abject poverty. Preceding the civil rights movement. Before the likes of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X. This family, The Younger’s have to deal with the inheritance left by the patriarch of the Younger family. The members of the family all have their own ideas of how to properly manage the money, however none of them have ever handled money of this large amount before. The growth, the journey of Walter Lee Younger encapsulates this work by Hansberry. From a man full of ambition to the point of busting. To a man, who recognizes the value of pride, hard work, and family. Walter
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Lena Younger she is the matriarch of the family. Lena will be from henceforth referred to as mama as she is commonly called throughout, “A Raisin in the Sun”. Walter Lee Younger who is the star of this is Mama’s son. Walter has a wife named Ruth and they have a son, approximately ten years old, whose name is Travis. Walter has one sibling, Beneatha. She is a college student aspiring to be a doctor. The small apartment that the family lives in is described as tired. Throughout the introduction of characters and setting the description is repeatedly of tiredness (ACTI.SceneI.487-14). This sets the stage for the situation of the family. One of despondency. Five individuals living in a small two bedroom apartment, surrounded by a heavy sense of weariness, like a cloud that is threatening to suffocate them. Walter Lee the last remaining adult male of the family feels the need to make life better not only for himself but for his son as well. Walter Lee is continually reminded of what life could be on the job, as a chauffeur for a rich white man. Walter Lee is a, “lean intense young man in his middle thirties inclined to quick nervous movements and erratic speech habits – and always in his voice there is a quality of indictment (ActI.SceneI.488—37to39)”. Nervousness was a quality that thrived in the African American population during pre-civil rights era of the United States of America. In this way Walter is a characterization not simply of a man struggling to make it, but of the African-American populace struggling not only simply make it, but to
Lena Younger she is the matriarch of the family. Lena will be from henceforth referred to as mama as she is commonly called throughout, “A Raisin in the Sun”. Walter Lee Younger who is the star of this is Mama’s son. Walter has a wife named Ruth and they have a son, approximately ten years old, whose name is Travis. Walter has one sibling, Beneatha. She is a college student aspiring to be a doctor. The small apartment that the family lives in is described as tired. Throughout the introduction of characters and setting the description is repeatedly of tiredness (ACTI.SceneI.487-14). This sets the stage for the situation of the family. One of despondency. Five individuals living in a small two bedroom apartment, surrounded by a heavy sense of weariness, like a cloud that is threatening to suffocate them. Walter Lee the last remaining adult male of the family feels the need to make life better not only for himself but for his son as well. Walter Lee is continually reminded of what life could be on the job, as a chauffeur for a rich white man. Walter Lee is a, “lean intense young man in his middle thirties inclined to quick nervous movements and erratic speech habits – and always in his voice there is a quality of indictment (ActI.SceneI.488—37to39)”. Nervousness was a quality that thrived in the African American population during pre-civil rights era of the United States of America. In this way Walter is a characterization not simply of a man struggling to make it, but of the African-American populace struggling not only simply make it, but to