Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Ruth will go beyond her way get make her family happy. She started working more hours to make everything happen for them. One day Mamma give Walter half of the money, but she said to put three thousand in the saving for Beneatha’s school but Water didn’t listen but he put the whole 6,500. Ruth and Mamma were very upset but what happen happen already. In the book Ruth say “ I don’t know what it is- but he needs something I can’t give him anymore”(Hansberry, pg.85). Ruth relationship this quote shows the tension and misunderstanding of Ruth and Walter in their relationship. Ruth shows that she honestly doesn't know what to do to help their relationship. When Walter did that mistake by butting all the money to store it became a big problem to the family. Ruth family poor financial situation has to double as a housewife and working mother. Both Ruth and her husband Walter are frustrated with their lives, and their marriage is in trouble. Now Ruth has to find some type of job to cover the house bills and everything else. Ruth and Walter finally found a day to go out and she was telling everyone about it. She said “Lord, that man – don’t changed so ‘round here. You know – you know what we did last night? Me and Walter Lee?…(Smiling to herself) We went to the movies. (Looking at BENEATHA to see if she understands). We went to the movies. You know the last time me and Walter went to the movies together?BENEATHA No. RUTH Me

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,

Although she is happy with mama’s decision to buy a house, Ruth is more concerned with receiving the affection of her husband and keeping him happy than the consequences or the moral implications his decisions will have. Ruth maintains the apartment they live in and most of the time, goes along with whatever Walter says. This is where Ruth and Mama differ; Mama wants Walter to be happy but not at the cost of doing something morally wrong, Ruth will do whatever it takes to make Walter happy. We see this when Ruth is contemplating having an abortion in order not to complicate living arrangements in the apartment and to allow Walter the financial means to pursue his goals. She also intends to keep it from Walter so spare him the burden of having to make a decision like that. When Mama find out about the abortion, she is appalled and says, “…we a people who give children life, not who destroys them.” Mama also succeeds in expressing her rich values and nurturing nature in Act III, Scene Three, when it is discovered that Walter has lost the remainder of the insurance money when his liquor store investment partner disappears with the money. Beneatha goes into a rage and openly expresses her hatred and contempt for her brother, and says, “He’s no brother of mine.”(Hansbury 3.3)

He is on the most important characters that influenced the plot because of his deportment in the scenes the class has read, deportment is his behavior and manners. Walter became very selfish, he believed that he should have a say with what happens with the insurance money, which accumulates several problems between Walter and all the other characters in the house. In fact, there is a great deal of hostility between Walter, Ruth, and Mama. Walters actions have even threatened Ruth and his marriage. It shows that, as a character Walter is becoming shallow and he is losing family value. In one of his arguments between him and Ruth, Walter exclaimed, “and you turn mine too, baby! That was my biggest mistake.” In these two short sentences Walter is telling Ruth that is biggest mistake was marrying her. With Walter saying this leaves the question, that will Walter and Ruth remain married or are their problems larger than they

Ruth’s character is sagged by her off-course dream of wanting to buy a bigger house for her family and make her family happy. Mama tells Walter that Ruth is expecting another baby after Walter is mad that he even married Ruth and Walter is very surprised that Ruth was thinking about getting rid of the

Walter has a conflict with Ruth, Mama, and Beneatha throughout play because

Shortly finding out Willy Harris ran away with all the money. Although Mama was furious and angry she still loved her son. Mama shortly came to her senses thinking to herself saying, now that's my son and she understood that people will tend to make mistakes. I believe Walter earned his trust back by standing up to Linder, although Mama was very shocked on how Walter approached the situation like a

Walter begins to drink, stay away from home, and to constantly argue with his wife, Ruth. Walter's life is contrasted by the role of his recently widowed mother, who holds to more traditional values of acceptance of life's lot and of making the best of any situation. Walter Lee's "Mama" holds Walter's father up as an example of a man with pride and a man that, despite racial injustice in a dualistic society, worked hard to provide for his family. This adds to Walter's frustration. Walter now feels incapable and small in his mama's eyes.

She is the oldest and wisest member of the family, and her word is respected. Mama puts family above herself, contrasting from Beneatha’s willingness to temporarily use her family to put her through school. When Mama received the life insurance check from her deceased husband, she used the money to buy a new house. She sensed that the family was restless and breaking, and she used her money to change the scenery for them and give them a place to live that they could be proud of. She makes sure to take care of her family, contributing what everyone else did, and taking less; working a job and also taking care of everyone at home. Mama has old fashioned, traditional beliefs, and she clashes with the others at certain moments in order to hold her ground and traditions. When Beneatha says she isn’t religious, Mama slaps her and makes her say, “In my mother’s house there is still God.”(page 54) She makes sure to enforce her beliefs in her house, also making it clear how she feels about Ruth wanting an abortion. Mama is the leader of the household, and as such she is the only one who is willing to put trust in Walter in order to empower him. After she bought the house, she gave the remainder of the money to him, trusting him to make a heavy decision. Even after he hurt her by wasting the money, she still gave him the power of the head of the family to make the final decision on

Mama, however, is strong, spiritual and eager to help her children in any way she can. She values family above and beyond all else, but has the deep insight into the other character's motivations even when she doesn't agree. In the middle of the play (at the fuse for the final conflict), she recognizes that Walter is miserable because no one believes in him and his dreams. She gives him a large chunk of the insurance check to invest in a liquor store even thought she doesn't agree with it. She trusts him with it and, when he loses the money to a "trusted friend," she becomes enraged and begins to physically attack him. However, by the next scene she has forgiven him and tells her daughter that she should do the same; "There is always something to love: when do you think the time is to love somebody the most? It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so!" With those words, Mama seems to symbolize all that is good, solid and peaceful in the world.

Additionally, the play highlights how important it is to have dreams because when you have nothing to aspire to, you lost all hope. This idea was highlighted by the character, Ruth, wife to Walter, who cried out “I will strap my baby on my back, wash and iron every piece of clothing, do what I must, but we are getting out of here….. “ when told that they would not be moving into their new home. At that moment Ruth felt as if she had lost her purpose in life, willing to give up and give into despair. It was not until Lena, the matriarch of the family, convinced her that everything would

Ruth is a very strong woman with morals and a belief in God. Ruth loves her husband and her son and does her very best to take care of them. She is always putting the needs and desires of her family above her own. Ruth has always been supportive of Walter, but recently they have not been communicating well. Ruth tries to convince Mama to allow Walter the chance to invest in the liquor store by saying, “something is happening

       Walter was upset when he heard his mother had spent the insurance money on the house and thought it wasn't fair that Beneatha got some of it for her medical school while he got nothing for his liquor store business. Lena, who always wanted her son to be happy, trustingly gave the rest of the insurance money to Walter. Holding the money in his hands, Walter thanked his mother and appreciated the trust she had in him. Walter then gave the money to his buddies to help him getting his liquor license without realizing that they betrayed him. As his dream crumbled to pieces, Walter was regret that he didn't listen to his mother, wife and sister.

She tries to do as much as she can. She just wants Walter to love him but that is tough since he has been so sad all the time. All he wants is to make a name for himself and save his family. Unfortunately, he was a little too upset with Ruth so he uttered something that the could not take back. During one of their arguments on page 87, Ruth asks, “Honey, why can’t you stop fighting me?” so he responds with,”Who’s fighting you? Who even cares about you?” This crushes Ruth and she doesn’t know what to do. She talks of how she is going to get an abortion for the new baby they will have. She was so sad because of how her husband does not seem to care.Fortunately, she doesn’t but that relates to Aretha Franklin’s song, “Respect.” The last couple lines in the song are,”When you come home, or you might walk in. And find out I'm gone, I got to have a little respect.” Ruth can relate to this because she was going to leave and have the baby aborted. This definitely would have changed things because the whole family would have been hurt by it. Ruth also explains how she wants to leave their tenament for a house. This would help her to have more self-respect being a homeowner. After Walter loses all of the money, Mama is unsure about keeping the house anymore. Ruth quickly stifles her ideas by stating, “Lena – I’ll work … I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to – but we got to MOVE! We got to get OUT OF HERE!” That quote is on page 140 and further explains how Ruth really wanted to leave that house. Ruth wanted to be a difference maker. The neighborhood the family is moving to is made up of only white people, but Ruth is not scared. ON

Although, Lena hits a big part of the plot, her son, Walter, seems to have the same size amount of influencing. Walter comes off as a very stubborn, abate, conundrum, and pessimistic man. When, Walter is just an ordinary guy trying to provide wealth, and care, for his family. And to make his home life, more livable. Once the Younger’s father had passed away, Walter seemed to only care about using up his insurance check more than anything. Only, to invest into a liquor store. Walter has got himself so beyond caught up with the money, that he doesn’t seem to notice the fact that his marriage is starting to fall apart. Every time Ruth tries to talk to Walter about something serious, he turns his cold shoulder on her, and always ends up with an inevitable remark such