A Raisin In The Sun Ending Analysis

A Raisin In The Sun Ending At the end of the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the family is getting ready to move into their new home. Although the family just lost all of their money, this is a happy ending to the story. Walter is the most upset about losing the money and he is also the reasoning behind it, but it’s his decision to move into the house instead of sell it to Mr. Lindner. Before Mr. Lindner got to the families home, Walter planned on selling the house to him. Even though the family booth needs and wants a new home, he thinks it would be better to have the money. Walter changes his mind about this when he looks into his son’s eyes. He sees how this house will change his little boy's life. He knows that if he sells the newly bought home that the boy …show more content…
Lindner comes to the families home because he has been informed that they family has changed their minds and want to negotiate with him. Walter was very certain he was going to sell this house to him, to make up part of the money he had lost. Now that Mr. Linder is there, he can’t do it. He looks into Travis’s eyes and realizes that if he goes through with this plan it’ll hurt his boy. Not only will his son be stuck sleeping on a tiny couch inside a tiny crowded house, he’ll also get a bad idea on what’s important in life. Travis will see his father go through with this deal in order to get money, and think that money is the most valuable thing in life. It’s in this moment that Walter himself realizes that this is not true. Money is not the most important thing in life, family is. By selling this house, he was hurting his family. Hurting his family meant hurting the most important thing in his life. Therefor, he shall not do it. Walter tells Mr. Linder that he will not be selling him their home and ask him to leave. Now the family is left with no money, but it doesn’t matter because they have each other and they are very happy that Walter thought about them when he made this