Essay On Fate In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Acquired Fate Living with your entire family cramped up in a tight space can usually cause issues to develop between the whole household, it’s an unavoidable situation.. Although issues develop, families are strong, they’re able to pull through anything they undergo. The author Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play, A Raisin in the Sun, about a colored family from the Southside of Chicago being given a great deal of money after a family members passing. Though this family now has money, it stirs up a few complications. Little did they know they had a bond strong enough to function well together. Let alone them having their own family problems, being people of color causes them to have to deal with external issues from society alone. They soon …show more content…
In Hansberry’s play, Mama had given Walter some money to live out his dream of owning a liquor store. Some of the money she had given him had been part of Beneatha’s money for medical school. He decided to invest all the money he was given, including Beneatha’s. He thought it was one of the best investments he could possibly make, until one of his “business partners” Willy Harris had run away with all of the money and hadn’t been heard from. Walter realized he’d messed up, so his idea of fixing the situation was contacting Lindner to take him up on his offer. His family was really disappointed in him for losing the money, especially Beneatha, she had been angry with what her brother had done with the money. After Walter called Lindner, he finally arrived happy they’d called him back about the money. After doing some thinking alone, it seemed that Walter realized something important in himself and with his family. Walter had told Lindner, “What I am telling you is that we called you over here to tell you that we are very proud and that this...we have all thought about your offer—”(148). When Walter says this, he mentions his family being proud, that they have pride. With his family having pride he isn’t going to let anyone with anything take their pride away from them. Walter then continues to say, “...We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we …show more content…
People may only see the negativity in which Walter has put on his family. He has done nothing but cause them to go through a ton of rough patches. Throughout most of the play, Walter only really cares about what he wants, and he assumes it’s what everyone wants as well. He labels his dream as everyone else's dreams. By putting his dreams in front of everyone else's, it causes conflicts to brew between them all. He was given the money to carry out his dream, and went ahead and lost it— all of it wasn’t just his money. Part of the money was meant for Beneatha’s schooling, and he took her chance at affording her way to becoming a doctor. Beneatha was also strongly considering moving to Africa with Asagai, a boy she had been seeing, he offered to help her become a doctor in Africa. If Beneatha were to leave her family, this would certainly stir up issues with the family, no one would be happy anymore. This all shows what Walter is like, it’s become apart of who he is, it’s only going to keep on recurring. Walter is bound to cause more issues amongst their family, possibly more severe issues than they already have. Aside from Walter and his actions, the Youngers are a colored family living through a time in which they aren’t very welcomed. They’re trying to move into an all White community, expecting there to be no