A Raisin In The Sun Negative Attitudes

All around mean people are seen with negative attitudes. Negative characters are usually influenced by harsh feelings that are shared with them. Negative attitudes can make an impact on others around. In this play, it is shown that there are several people that show negative emotions. Lorraine Hansberry has introduced such characters in her play, A Raisin in the Sun. The play's setting is somewhere around the 1950s on the southside of Chicago, which was in bad economic trouble back then. The characters that show negative behavior are Walter because of his drunk nature and high risk attitude, Karl because he is racist and a cold-hearted person, and George because he acts very snobbish and is an assimilationist.
The first character who shows negative emotion is Walter. Walter has a very dense character type and is very pessimistic about life. Walter is a drunkard, which does affect his personality toward others. Alcohol is a terrible influence on his life and major decisions. Walter is obsessed with getting money so that he can buy expensive jewelry for his wife, but he actually is driving for others as a chauffeur. Thus, he becomes obsessed with an unrealistic business idea of opening a liquor store, which he thinks can solve all of …show more content…
The play shares a feeling of negativity because the author, Lorraine Hansberry feels that during that time it was very depressing and the racism made it worse for those who were not appreciated. People currently still have problems because of what it has left on our social quo. Positivity should be a goal for the future of others and it will make a mark on the world today. In the play A Raisin in the Sun it shows a very strong and outgoing family which just needs a little time to realizes this and see what the family is really meant to be