Success/Values: Walter Lee defines success as material and financial gain. Beneatha defines success as self-actualization, or learning about and nurturing oneself. But to their mother, Lena, success is less self-centered and lies more in creating a happy, healthy family. Lena freque...

Buddha, a well-known and credible philosopher, once said, "There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed." Lorraine Hansberry very successfully portrayed the evil of greed in her novel A Raisin in the Sun. A story of a fa...

In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee Younger is portrayed as the big dreamer of the Younger family. His dream is to become rich and he spins up schemes with this friends, particularly with Willy Harris. When the play opens, he wants to invest his father's insurance money into a liquor store. H...

In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, each character clings to a dream. Mama, Walter Lee, and Beneatha Younger portray three different characters striving for three different dreams. Each Younger has a vision of what life could be and Hansberry shows how Walter Lee, Beneatha, and Mama attem...

Mama is the mother of both Beneatha and Walter Lee. She is head of the family as well as maternal and religious. Mama wants to use the insurance money from her husband to buy a house for her family. Mama is proud of who she is and of her African heritage and believes in its importance. Mama is a...