because of the death of Walter Younger Sr. Ideas clash on how the money should be spent. Walter Lee‚ the protagonist‚ wants to invest in a liquor store‚ while his sister Beneatha wants to use the money towards her college and Lena‚ who is the mother‚ wants to buy something the whole family may enjoy. Throughout the play‚ the characters Walter Lee‚ Beneatha‚ and Mama all undergo changes when deciding how the check should be spent.
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negative assets are‚ they are simply black and white pictures. Rather than a life of royalty‚ Walter lives a life of little importance with no story to tell. However‚ it has been the singular privilege of Walter’s unexceptional career to handle the works contributed by Sean O’Connell‚ a photography superstar who roams the world in search of exotic subjects. It is very clear from the beginning that Walter clearly admires Sean and wishes he could be more like him. That his unexceptional average life
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feel they are not important and valued without money. Walter Younger is no exception‚ he thinks that if he has money he has everything. Walter wanted to be a provider for the family and planned on doing so by investing in a liquor store with the insurance check from his dad’s death. However‚ he can’t because the money did not belong to him but it belongs to Mama. Later on his mother decides to give him the remaining insurance money and Walter entrusts it to Bobo and Willy to acquire a license for
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Rough Draft In Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun‚” Walter Younger is an idealist who failed to see reality and how things actually work out. Walter is in his 30s yet he still lives with his mother‚ who holds the family together. He isn’t capable of caring for a family and making the right decisions. He has a dream of owning a liquor store that his family opposes to yet he still tried to obtain it. Walter is a man of flaws because of his bitterness towards others‚ such as George
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” is about a novelist Walter Streeter who one day gets a postcard from Forfar signed W.S. He doesn’t pay any attention to this as he is used to get letters and he tears it. Later he gets 2 more postcards from Berwick-on-Tweed and York Minster. Getting them Walter Streeter becomes interested in the author. He notices that the author has the same initials as he has and that makes him think about him more. His friend supposes W.S. to be a woman who has taken a fancy to Walter Streeter. When he gets
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The man behind one of the biggest theme parks in the world and the man behind the mouse named Mickey. Walter Elias Disney also known as Walt Disney for short was born on December 5th‚ 1901 in Chicago‚ Illinois. Walter’s parents were his father‚ Elias‚ an Irish-Canadian and his mother‚ Flora‚ a German-American. Walter was one of five children‚ he had three brothers and one sister. Soon after Walter was born‚ the family had moved to a farm in Marceline‚ Missouri. Elias Disney was an abusive father so
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Lorraine Hansberry‚ author of the play Raisin in the Sun‚ creates and develops a clear hero in Raisin in the Sun. This hero is a main character named Walter‚ and he is the hero of this play because of his actions and characteristics. Hansberry also made various author decisions in which she created literary effects such as surprise. The central idea Walter aids in the development in throughout the entirety of the play are that family is important; this central idea is essential to the development of
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The play A Raisin in the Sun By Lorraine Hansberry‚ Mama and Walter Lee argue a lot‚ mostly about money and how the family should be raised and who should lead the family. For example‚ In the play Mama and Walter Lee argue mostly about the life insurance money‚ Walters dad’s insurance money to be exact. Walter Lee dreams of owning a business‚ but his first chance of owning a business is lost (Hansberry 32). He wants to own part of a liquor store‚ but‚ Mama disagrees with this choice‚ saying “...And
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to revolve around the character Sir Walter Whorehound who is a Knight. He is the common factor that is brought up in all three marriages in the play. The marriage between Sir Walter and Moll is the first marriage that is presented where Sir Walter is a deceiving character. In the opening act there is a conversation between Moll and her mother discussing how she is fortunate to be betrothed to Sir Walter‚ because she is not very feminine when really Sir Walter is only looking into marrying Moll
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Walter’s Transformation Lorraine Hansberry’s character Walter is a man who wants to follow his dreams. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun‚ Walter tries to fix his family’s financial problem but instead makes them worse. Walter’s plan to become rich combined with Hansberry’s dialogue indicates that if we are consumed with envy of someone else’s accomplishments‚ then we forget to appreciate what we have. “…Walter Lee is so interested in ‘bout the store… I mean we figured it out me and Willy and Bobo
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