Walter wants to begin the new business which is the liquid store rather than being a chauffeur. However the family except the Walter doesn't want to take an adventure and accept the Walter's idea. The dream of Walter is going to fall down, but the Lena believes Walter and give him the money which is the remainder of the money after buying new house, which is included the Beneatha's college money. Walter is surprised by belief of the family so he invests the money to a friend to start the new business, but the friend is gone with the money that has Walter and Beneatha's hopes. Walter gets discouraged
Desperate to fulfill this dream, he takes $6,500 of his mother’s insurance money that she obtains shortly beforehand following the death of Walter Sr. and strikes a deal with two friends of his to purchase a liquor store. This causes him to be scammed by one of them. Langston Hughes’ poem accurately represents the state of the family after Walter’s investment. In the play, the immediate answer to Walter’s betrayal of the family is to “explode” with anger.
At one point in the story, Mama decides to give Walter the money to support his business because she felt as if she owed Walter. But, she
He has a wife, Ruth, a sister, Beneatha, a mama, Lena, and a son, Travis. His ultimate dream is to illegally sell liquor with a couple of his friends so he can become the main provider for his family and give them a better life. Walter’s father has recently passed away and the family is waiting on an insurance check of ten thousand dollars. Walter says, “Yeah. You see, this liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand
He thinks that if he can own a business it will show everyone that he is successful and he will be respected and treated like a man. Walter’s mother receives a $10,000.00 life insurance payment for the death of her husband, Walter tries to convince her to give him all of the money to invest in a liquor store. Mama wants to use the money to make a down payment on a new house in a white neighborhood. Mama puts some of the money towards the new house and Walter continues to harass Mama until eventually he wears her down. Mama decides to give him $6,500.00.
Being the man of the household, Walter dreams of owning a liquor store and plans on using Lena’s money to do so. Walter is always after money and believes that the only way to succeed in life is with money. For example, when Walter is talking about the check, he says, “Mama, sometimes when I’m downtown and I pass them cool, quiet-looking restaurants where them white boys are sitting back and talking about things, turning deals worth millions of dollars, sometimes I see guys don’t look much older than me” (992).This shows how Walter wanted something more out of life and not just be a poor black man. Everyone in this family had dreams but no one supported each other dreams.
Walter is a middle age that is ashamed of were he is inn life. When walter discovers that he will get 10 grand from the insurance company when his father died, he gets some big dreams about owning a liquor store. He belives that if they invenst all of their money into a liqoure store, that they will become rich and move out of the getoh. He is the only man in the house besides his son travis who is almost never there. So it is just him and 3 women.
Despite the fact that dreaming of a liquor store is shallow, Walter’s motivation to be able to support his family helps reconcile his somewhat immoral hopes. Later, Walter shows the idiocy of his plan to own a liquor store when he gets drunk. In act 2, scene 2, Walter borrows Willy Harris’s car and drives around Chicago for two days, then “just walked”, and finally “went to the Green Hat” (2.2 105). Through his actions, Walter shows that he is immature and cares more about pretending to be rich than his job that would allow him to provide for his family.
Mama made a decision that put Walter in charge of the remaining money, however she did not know that this decision might not have been the best for the Younger family. Walter was hesitant in taking the money, but Mama reassures Walter by saying, "I ain't ever stop trusting you" (Hansberry 546). This line from Mama foreshadows the possibility that Walter will not obey her and do something foolish with the money. Walter proves this foreshadowing as he is talking to Travis and says, "... your daddy's gonna make a transaction... a business transaction that's going to change our lives" (Hansberry 547).
This was an act of trust shown by Mama, that helped Walter believe that his dreams were still possible and that his Mama trusts him to take care of their family. “I'm telling you to be the head of this family,” (546) she told him. Due to the fact that she handed Walter the insurance money and the authority, she wasn't going to stop him when he decided to take
In Walter’s mind, good use of that money was to buy the liquor store and help his family escape their economic status. However, since the money is gone, so are Walter’s hopes and
He wants to be a businessman and own a liquor store. He wants to be able to provide for his family and give them what they have never had. Walter also wants to take his mother’s position as the head of the house and make the financial decisions for the family. Walter can be seen as selfish as instead of putting the money for him and his sister in the bank he uses it all and loses it trying to fulfill his own dreams with no regard to his sister’s dreams or the rest of the family’s.
All Walter wanted was to have money and open his own liquor store but it was not possible. Walter’s dream was unfortle not able to come true
As the story begins Walter is shown as a symbol of strength that later turns weak due to his actions. Walter from the beginning is seen as a clever man that knows what he wants by his tone. Walter has a great job at an insurance company that he has worked at for years. Also Walter is able to establish his own company from how smart and financially stable he is. Walter a man of total success.
