Loss Of Hope In A Raisin In The Sun

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.

Mama is upset because the money was for Beneatha's schooling to become a doctor and for them to invest in the liquor store. Mama plants is the most repetitive symbol in the “Raisin In The Sun” because it's represents the family going, their dreams and mama's dreams of owning a garden. That's what Mamas plant captures, her family's journey to

In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, what Jay Gatsby feels for Daisy Buchanan is obsession. Gatsby revolves and rearranges his entire life in order to gain her affections. Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy resulted in him buying a mansion across the lake from her, throwing huge parties, and spending years of his life trying to become rich. Gatsby bought mansion intentionally across the lake from Daisy just to be closer to her.

Tho it is hard to see until the very end of the play, A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry shows Walter Younger is a big dreamer and wants to be rich. Younger is a very selfish man and shows his selfishness through his sacrificing of the family money. When the Younger family inherits ten thousand dollars from the death of a family member, Walter goes crazy trying to get his hands on the money to invest in the liquor store downtown. His selfishness is shown when Mama gives him what is left of the life insurance and he is told to save a generous amount of money for Beneatha’s schooling and then he can keep the rest for saving up. Instead of doing what he is told to do, he invests in the liquor store with his two other friends.

In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter, the main character, desperately wants to use the insurance check to purchase a liquor store. Walter sees the liquor store as a new beginning for his family. Walter and his family are currently living in a 2 bedroom apartment where they are forced to share a bathroom with their neighbors. Walter describes the despair he is in saying “I’m thirty five years old; I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room- and all I got to give him is stories of how rich white people live” (Hansberry 22).

He feels as if everyone is left. Holden has given up on trying to date people to fill the void that is so empty in his heart. Holden pushes away most people in his life “'Cause most of [Holden’s] feelings, they are dead and they are gone” because of the people who were never actually there. Most of the people Holden tries to call are recently met friends that he most likely met after the death of his brother. The songwriter has been hurt so many times that she no longer wants to feel anything, so therefore does not allow herself to care about anything or anyone anymore.

But eventually Walter is not happy about the idea of moving, because she specified that the house was in an all-white neighborhood. Later in the play Lena gave Walter $6,500 dollars to use a portion and to leave some money for his sister. In Lorraine Hansberry ’s play “A Raisin in the Sun”, each character has a dream or goal that is altered by the events of the play.

Mustapha Mond that getting rid of it was “the cost of stability”(pg. 225). In order to have a perfect civilization, they had to sacrifice most emotions, art, and science. John exiles himself to get away from civilization. He no longer wanted to be apart of the perfect society.

I look like my dad but act like my mom. Ponyboy hates me a little but I know I should be a little less strict. If anyone else dies from the gang are never going to beat the socs again in the rumbles especially if the person that dies is me. I love the gang and everyone in the gang because we all stick up for each other.

Walter proves that, yes, an incomplete dream can explode. Walter’s ultimate goal in the play is to make sure that his son, Travis, could lead an easier life than what he has to go throughout the play. As Walter’s mother says, “seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while” (Hansberry 503). Walter plans to use his share of money from his father’s check to invest in a liquor shop, in order to eventually make enough money to provide happiness for his family.

Later on in the play, a white man named Mr. Linder bribes the family with money so they wouldn’t move into the new house but the family doesn’t take the offer. Later in act three Mama announces that they are not going to move, Ruth protests the idea. Walter called Mr. Linder and invited him to come over with his intentions to take his offer of money in exchange to not move anymore. “ (looking at his sister) we are going to do business with him.” Though this is later in the story it still goes to show Walter is still somewhat obsessed with having more money and doing what he wants with it.

Rex Walls is a very intellectual man who has a strong passion towards math and science. He is a skilled engineer and electrician and hopes that one day he will make his family rich and build them a glass castle. Unfortunately due to his abusive past, economic situation, and his inability to hold a stable job to provide for his family he resulted to alcohol for comfort which made him a very unstable role model. He would spend whatever remains from his family’s tight budget on alcohol and gambling. He even stole money from his wife’s pay check and from his children’s saving fund.

I was was the youngest brother and I was the driver when we would haul it seemed like we stopped around every corner but we were the best in the valley and everone wanted a taste of what we had. We thought our little operation was good but we were just some rough ole country boys, we had heard the some gangsters in the city were havin liquor hauled in by the truck load and selling it at top price, but we didn 't wanna have no business with no gangsters. Soon enough me and my buddy cricket made a run in to the city and sold a load of 100 gallons of pure white lightnin and 105 gallons of crazy aple to a gangster named Mad Dog Floyd Banner, I sold the whole load for 5 dollars a gallon which was twice what Forst was gettin for it.

when jesse and walter lock Krazy-8 in the basement they flip a coin to see who kills him and walter does not want to kill the man but he knows if he doesn 't that krazy-8 will probably come back and kill walter and his family so it 's a life or death situation for him so he needed to make a decision but he almost let him go if Krazy-8 wouldn 't have had a knife he probably would have been free to go but since he wanted to try and kill walter he had to end Krazy-8’s life. his moral choices and decisions were a hardship for him so some of his choices were overall evil and he tries to make the right decisions but he does what really has to be done in order to keep him and his

Therefore he starts drinking more, being that he cannot stand not being the center of everyone’s attention. But all the problems he has originated from, and worse than that, he does nothing productive to try and fix any of them. This once again proves that Troy is unsuitable to be a proper father for Cory and a respectable husband for Rose. Troy loses the dignity, respect and even love that was once given to him by his friends and family. His own selfish needs are fuel for the destruction of the life he once knew.