A Raisin In The Sun Literary Analysis

A Raisin in the Sun is about African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. thats received a life insurance check for $10,000. The money came from her husband that had recently passed away. With the money the family had received each one of them had their own dream with the money. Mama, wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she shared with her husband. Mama’s son, Walter Lee, would rather use the money to invest in a liquor store with his friends. He believes that the investment will solve the family’s financial problems forever. Walter’s sister and Mama’s daughter, wants to use the money for her medical school tuition. The younger family had had dreams with the money they had received but Walters idea with the money could really benefit the whole family and could possibly save the family from financial problems. “The American dream is about getting rich”. Few ideas are as central to American self-identity as the “American dream.” Politicians invoke it, immigrants pursue it, and despite unremittingly negative economic news, citizens embrace it. …show more content…
Walter serves as both protagonist and antagonist of the play. Most of his actions and mistakes hurt the family greatly, but his belated rise to manhood makes him a sort of hero in the last scene. Walter provides an everyman perspective of the mid-twentieth-century African-American male. He is the typical man of the family who struggles to support it and who tries to discover new, better schemes to secure its economic prosperity. Walter’s idea with the money was the best with helping the family but towards the end his idea of the liquor store had went wrong and he didn’t get to really pursue his dreams with the money they had