One thing that I’ve learned is that money isn’t everything and can’t buy you happiness. You should do whatever it takes to achieve your dreams don’t let anyone bring you down or tell you otherwise. You should set goals in order to achieve your dreams. There are going to be obstacles that will stand in your way. You must conquer them, avoid things that are threatening your goal. Everyone deserves something in life and they should strive to get it or make it happen. Back in the play the eggs walter says DAMN all the eggs that ever was damn my eggs.The eggs represent walters dreams and how he thinks ruth is holding him back from achieving them. Your dream can become inevitable if you somehow make a mistake but you should let that ruin your …show more content…
Also some decisions you make can be very cautious like walter calls Linder back to get the money and wants to do business with him, but eventually walter changes his mind because his family weren’t so in on the plan and he tells Linder we come from people who had a lot of pride we are very proud people and instead of being selfish he decides to follow his family's dreams. From reading this book I also have to say don’t take anything for granted like treat someone as if you don’t appreciate them or that you don’t value that person enough, because in the play walter feels livid that his family doesn't respect or acknowledge his dream he feels as if his family has disdain for his dreams. One theme is that love conquers all because walter obviously loves his family because he did the right thing for them and agreed with them walter has pride and supports them. Also in the book mama says there is always something left to love. Mama loves her family because she tries her best to keep the family in tact she says that her trust and love is what kept the home strong all these years. When do you think it’s time to love someone the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody well then you ain't through learning because that ain’t the time at all. This affect me because I realized that the family to embrace each other but just had aimed
Walter comes up with another plan to take money from Linder, president of the Clyburn home association. Earlier, he offered the family money not to move in their neighborhood but Walter declined. However, after his devastating loss, he called up Linder to make a deal to get more money. Walter Younger’s defining moment was when Mama told him he was not a man and his father would not be pleased with his decision. This seemed to cause something to rise in him to change his perspective on
In chapter one Roots Walter talks about his mother and family and where he lives. Walters’s real mother died giving birth to him page 3. He calls Florence Dean his father’s first wife his mama. They moved to New York cause Herbert thought it would be less of a problem in New York, Harlem it’s on page 5.
What would you do if you were in a family crisis and given a 10,000 for your family member passing away? In the play Walter Younger goes through many different moral problems and has bad ego due to the money that has been given to the family. In this play during the late 1950s, there was a lot of racial problems, black skin color was discriminated and abused. Walter younger shows that he cares more about money rather than caring about his families care and well being. He rather open up a liquor store to get more money and keep his family living in the ran down apartment not thinking about all of the bad stuff that can possibly happen to his kin. Throughout this book making this a great mood changing book to read many sequal of events happen throughout the book.
Walter Lee is stubborn, very ambitious, and filled with pride at the beginning of the story. He strives for success with the money “Mama,” also known as Lena got from the life insurance from her husband who recently passed away. Walter was so selfish all he wanted was to provide a better life for he and his family because he was not satisfied with their current standards of living. He wants more and wishes to become rich because he believes he never had enough growing up, but at the same time he wants to provide money and societal respect for his family. He put his trust with the money into a person who betrayed him and he ended up losing it all including his sisters schooling money. After this scene in the play Walter was at his lowest point,
By the end of Act 3, the interaction between Mama and the rest of the family and other people reveals that your dress outcome will not always be meant to be. When Mama was talking to Walter about how he was acting after Walter lost the money she says, “You made something inside me cry, son. Some awful pain inside me” In other words, mama is at a turning point where she realizes something about her son, the fact that her son has this altruistic outlook on life and only wants the best for his family but doesn't know how to provide that. This is another obstacle for Mama because she trusted her son to do good for her family with the money but just lost it within about a week.
Walter presumes that ‘it’s always money’ and how Mama can’t use it in the right way. Walter later responds that ‘money is life,’ explaining to Mama that success is now defined by how much money one has. This conversation takes place early in the play and reveals Mama’s and Walters economic struggles. However we see a turn of events when Walter plans to accept Mr. Lindner’s offer. Walter is not concerned with the degrading implications of the business deal; it is simply a way to recover some of the lot money. However, Hansberry challenges Walter’s crude interpretation of the American Dream by forcing him to actually carry out the transaction in front of his son. Walter’s inability to deal with Mr. Linder marks a significant revision of his interpretation of the American Dream. Walter comes to a realisation that money is not everything and how family is so much more valuable. During the late 1950’s money was defined as one of the main characteristics of a man, and who that man will become. Walters dream is to obtain enough money to provide enough for his family, this dream of his suggests how his American Dream is also vanished, as money was an immense part of this dream of his. Wily Loman is the complete opposite; he fails to understand that there is so much more to becoming successful than being rich. The failure to understand this concept brought him to a sudden death. Willy is like every
This quote shows how Ruth is just trying to get by day by day and Walter is trying to change for his future, the eggs symbolizes how Walter is holding onto hope and Ruth has given up, showing Walter and Ruths perspective on life. Later on in the scene you can see Walter get more and more angry at Ruth as she continues to dismiss him as he is trying to show ways they can turn their life around and change for the better in this quote walter says”i got to change my life, i'm choking to death baby.ruth responds with'':your eggs is getting cold.. Walter that aint none of our money.walter says ”this morning, I was lookin in the mirror and thinking about it, im 35 years old, I been married for 11 years and I got living room, and all I got to give him is stories about how rich
Walter seems to be overcome with a search for power and a drive to become wealthy and leave the life of being a worker behind him. It also shows that he cares for his family seeing how he is striving to give them the best, but that aspect is overshadowed by his greed. I feel the scene also shows the Younger family at its lowest point in the movie. Walter is on the complete edge and is thinking of stealing a community's money and the rest of the family, besides Momma, seemed to lose their faith and trust in him. When things seemed hopeless with the loss of the money, they only became worse as a loss in more than money occurred. A loss in their character, faith, history, and respect for each other overcame the family, particularly Walter and Beneatha. Nevertheless, Momma soon sets Beneatha straight with an emotional and positive speech about how there is "always something left to love" and sets the standard that the family should adhere to. It marks the turning point at the end of the movie
No matter how hard they try, there are some people who cannot get ahead in life. Walter Lee Younger is a man who is frustrated with his current position in life, and every disappointment he has encountered thus far. Although he tries to be a loving man, sometimes he does not know how to show the idea of love, "Sometimes...sometimes...I don't even know how to try" (Hansberry 89). His position in life can be regarded as symbolic of every black male struggling to provide for his family by any means necessary. Although Walter has a job, it seems inadequate for his survival. As a result, he has become frustrated and lacks good judgement. Throughout this play Walter searches for the key ingredient that will make his life blissful. His
Walter's frustration festers and his anger turns inward towards his family who, in Walters eyes, do not understand him. Walter's family members do understand him and they also want to amass material dreams, but Walter's family members know that it is going to take work to get there.
First of all, originally, Walter didn’t always accept the thought of putting family first. He was a self-absorbed person that wanted his mother to use his deceased father’s money to open up a liquor store. In addition, he loved money more than his family.
At the beginning of the story, you see that Walter a very selfish about many things. Selfish about his dream of owning a liquor store, to just caring about the money, he shows very selfish traits. He doesn’t care for the rest of the family dreams as well. Beneatha wants to attend college to become a doctor, Mama wants to buy a house, but all Walter only cares about himself. At the end of the book, we see him become a more selfless character.
The speaker of this quote is Mr. Linder and he is talking about who he should speak to Mama or Walter. In other words, he could mean that they should have agreed with him in not living with the neighborhood where they were moving . they should have made that decision instead of making all that drama. I disagree with this quote because life can give us test and it's all about how we react to it. I think that the way Walter’s family react in a good way because this was their long dream. Their long dream was to live in a bigger house that has more space. They way they was very reasonable.
Showing his frustration to his mother, Walter does not feel like he will ever acquire his dream because he feels like he never got the chance or opportunity to. The inability of not able to provide a better life for his household is causing him to stress, act out of character and clouding his decision making. With nowhere else to turn he thought he could use his father’s life insurance money to invest into a liquor store which turned into a scam. Walter feeling trapped from making advancements in life, he makes a huge mistake and learns from this error. In the play Walter is talking to mother describing his anger,
Walter struggles in understanding who he needs to be for his family. He wants to take his place as the patriarch of the family, but he feels incapable of providing them with the lifestyle they deserve. This concern is always at the forefront of his mind, and it affects his attitude and outlook. The anxiety that Walter is dealing with creates confrontation with his sister. He fears that her dream will interfere with his own agenda of making a better life for his family. The severity of the tension becomes more and more apparent with Walter’s unwise investment. Walter is dealing with the burden that he has let his family down, while Beneatha is flabbergasted by the reality that her future has been snatched away from her, and she had no control over it. While reflecting on the situation, Beneatha remarks, “ I sound like a human who just had her future taken right out of my hands! While I was sleeping….things were happening in this world that directly concerned me and nobody consulted me—they just went out and did things—and changed my life” (Hansberry 3.15). Walter and Beneatha’s individual issues with the outcome of the situation cause them to find fault with one another during a time when their family needs to pull together to get through such a financial hardship. Walter is in an emotional pit; his turning to alcohol and music instead of his family for support expands the