Walter Lee basically took away his family's dream to allow his to come true. He went and gave away the money from his father to a man who was supposedly going to give the money to someone to buy a liquor store and license for himself. When the truth about what Walter had done it was a surprise to me because I felt as if Walter was becoming happy with the decision his mother had made about getting a new house; i figured he had moved on and wanted to see how his life would end up being in an upgraded home and community. Walter doing what he did with the money was very selfish and definitely not right.
The end of the play A Raisin in the Sun stood out for me due to it not really being expected. I expected the play to go on and be about how they lived in the house in the white neighborhood, but it ending with the foreshadow that they will move on stands out to me. It would have been interesting if the play had gone to the point where they moved in order to see how they are actually treated by their neighbors and to show off the disrespect the black community was getting at the time.
Ian, I one hundred percent agree with your statements. Walter Lee may have blossomed at the end of the story and become the man of the house. However, it is Walter that carried on the memory of his father. money is worthless to the mind. The truth is that money could have been used for anything and now, Mama has less to worry about spending.
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I think that what is more relevant to the play is the struggle of Mama's family within her own community. The play is just as much about economics as it is about race and gender, and all of these areas are used to show the differences between the minority and the majority. I do not think that seeing discrimination against the Youngers would change my opinion of any of the characters for the negative, because the resolution of the play displays Walter's growth. Lorraine Hansberry portrays the struggles of the black community without outwardly showing racial discrimination. I believe that is much more significant and more of a testament to her. Furthermore, the play also shows more than just the racial struggles of black people; there is more to black history than that.
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