Wrong Desire for Weath

Wrong Desire of Wealth

In the middle of the 20th century a play called “A Raisin in the Sun” came out by the author Lorraine Hansberry. The set of the play is an African American family lives in the south side of Chicago in a room full of hopes and dreams. The play is about dreams each member of the family is trying to achieve. They go through difficulties trying to reach their goals. However, in the end of the play only one dream was accomplished. The family consists of a mother, a man and his wife and kid, and a daughter. Hansberry uses Walter Lee to represent the traditional role of man as a head of household. Her depiction of Walter’s relationship with money and member of his family reveals to the audience that money is the most important support a man can give to his family. Also, how money cannot make a man can forget his pride.

Hansberry shows in the play the man who struggles to find a place for himself and within his family. Walter Lee in the play is obsessed with money and having it, and all he talks about is how to be wealthy so the family can be happy. He wants to open a liquor store so he can earn money to be in a higher class level than he is. Walter’s mother is against his project of opening the liquor store, so he gets angry and says “I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy Mama . . . Mama-look at me” (Hansberry 1473). Walter’s madness about money also affects his relationship with his wife. He makes his wife worried about their relationship and makes her ignore his nagging about money and his plan to open the liquor store. This begins when they have their breakfast and Walter starts talking again about money and his liquor store when his wife replies “Walter leave me alone! Eat your eggs, they gonna be cold” (Hansberry 1478 ). Also, Walter has some issues with his sister about her education by her wanting to be a doctor. He is not supporting her; in fact, he argues with her that she is wasting the family’s money, because...