In Act 2‚ Scene 2 of the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ Hansberry uses powerful diction and specific details to show Walter’s dream of being a wealthy businessman. Walter is constantly thinking about his version of a perfect life and considering all of the possible opportunities. He has always dreamed of coming home “after a day of conferences and secretaries getting things wrong the way they do… ‘cause an executive’s life is hell [...] And I’ll pull the car up on the driveway… just a plain black Chrysler
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry explores the struggle of the Younger family‚ with aspirations of a better future whilst dealing with poverty‚ racial oppression‚ and tensions within the household. The Youngers finally have a chance to lift these burdens as they receive a ten thousand dollar check‚ and Walter wants to use this money to invest and help his family live a luxurious life. However‚ Walter’s inability to responsibly manage large sums of money causes him to devastate personal relationships
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I would choose Mr. and Mrs. Finney as the mother and father because they are more a part of their children’s life. I like how they praticipate in the parent’s activities at school and how they cheer on their kids at events. I dispised Pheobe in some parts of the book because of her bossy actions. One of the parts I didn’t like was when she had dinner at the Finney’s house and she was telling them not to eat certain foods and was making them go out their way to please her. I also didn’t like
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A Raisin in the Sun Lena Younger (Mama) Lena Younger (Mama) had dreams of buying a house with her husband and having a garden of her own; “…you should know all the dreams I had ‘bout buying that house and fixing it up and making a little garden in the back-And didn’t none of it happen‚” (1782). Mama wants to her family to remain respectful of one another and of her and wants the insurance money from her husbands death used in a way to help keep the family together; “I don’t ‘low no yellin’
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The play Raisin in the Sun is set in Chicago during the 1960s. This play focuses in on a lower-middle class family who has recently lost the man of the house. While the family overcomes how to spend the insurance money it becomes clear that the three main female characters have major differences due to the ways they were raised in their generations. The women often butt heads on different topics like what duties women have in the house and in society. Each generation changes slowly but eventually
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Did you ever think that one of your best friends could steal something from you? The Younger family received a 10‚000 dollar check due to insurance money. Walter Lee Younger’s father had died also know has “Big” Walter. Walter really wanted to use the money on his lifelong dream‚ but what he didn’t know was that his best friend would take something very important to him(his dream). The rest of Walter’s family had dreams too‚ but not many were ever met. Walter has to give up his dream of owning his
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I am so excited to be in such an amazing play‚ A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. I got the part of Ruth‚ and I couldn’t be anymore ecstatic to play her. The director asked everyone in the play to write a character analysis about the character we are going to play. He asked that we include the following what the writer says about the character‚ what the character says or does‚ and what other characters say or do to your character. The author‚ Lorraine Hansberry‚ tells us about Ruth in
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people have dreams whether it is to be famous‚ have a nice family or even just to pass high school. Walter Lee Younger’s dream was to make a lot of money. In pursuit of his dream‚ Walter let it get in the way of his family and values. In the Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Walter realizes that his family is more important than his dreams because‚ in the beginning‚ all he cared about was money and he was selfish but‚ in the end‚ he decided his family was more important than money.
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Ambitious‚ independent‚ and hardworking. Beneatha Younger selfish at times believes that she could annihilate her family’s poverty. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry introduces a young strong and very ambitious woman striving to succeed. Beneatha ‚younger sister to Walter Lee and daughter to Lena‚ is a well educated and open minded African American woman who is very ambitious and strives to reach her goal to become a doctor. She will work as hard as possible to overcome her family’s poverty
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Biff from Death of a Salesman and Walter ‚jr‚ from A Raisin in the Sun ‚ both have a common attitude towards dreams and goals in their plans. They both want the end result of success‚ and yet they don’t want to put forth the effort necessary to achieve their goals. Biff’s dream to be a college football player was dependent on him passing math so he could graduate and get the scholarship. Still he failed the class and instead of going to summer school‚ he didn’t do anything about it‚ letting the
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