A Raisin in the Sun Character Ananlysis

             The play A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. The play takes place in Chicago sometime after World War II. The play is basically about a black family in Chicago who received a check for $10,000.00 in insurance money. The mother wants to use it to buy a house, but the son wants to use the money to buy a liquor store. The selfish son wants to use it to follow his dreams and the mother wants to use it for something that will benefit the whole house. In the end the mother buys the house. This play relates to deferred dreams by a black family has dreams but no way of achieving them.
             Walter Lee Younger is the main character in the play. He is selfish, money hungry, controlling and an angry man. Walter has a bad relationship with the rest of his family. He never listens to his wife when it comes to important things that will affect the rest of the family. He always puts his sister down and tells her that she shouldn't be a doctor because that's a man's job and she needs to stay in a woman's place and be a nurse. Some of Walter's frustrations with life are his job and the white society. Walter is a chauffeur he wants to be the one in the back seat and not the one who is driving around the white man. He has a frustration with white society because the white people want all the blacks to stay in the one area and not make anything of themselves and be successful.
             Mama also known as Lena Eggleston Younger is the head of the household. She controls everything that goes on in the house. Mama is Godly, has strong morals, loves her family and is a tyrant at times. Mama's actions affect the whole family. For instance, Ruth gets pregnant and she saw a doctor about getting an abortion. Mama steps in and says "we give children life, not destroy them" she tells Ruth that she can't have an abortion and even tells Walter to tell Ruth that too. Another example of Mama being a tyran
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