Importance Of Family In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

In the play, “A Raisin In the Sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry there is a non wealthy family that live in a very small apartment and have to share one bathroom with two other floors. This play shows the struggles the family went through and how hard it was living with five people, Walter Lee, Mama, Ruth Beneatha and Travis in a limited spaced apartment. Walter Lee and Ruth’s little boy is Travis and he sleeps on the couch because there is no room for him. Mama’s kids are Walter Lee and Beneatha and they both have dreams in Harlem. Mama’s husband, Walter, passed a while back and they were getting 10,000 dollars in insurance money. Walter Lee was setting his mind on investing in a liquor store with his friends Willy Harris and Bobo because it gets you a lot of money and supports your family very well. That is all Walter Lee wanted for his family but Mama would not let him because she said that their family does not invest in liquor stores. He could not stand that he was not getting what he wanted and he was slowly withering away from his family. Their family would get in super bad arguments and Walter Lee started skipping work for three days and almost lost his job. Finally, it got so bad that Mama could not take his attitude towards everybody so she went out to …show more content…
Walter Lee, her brother, would always be putting her down about becoming a doctor. He said to her, “I’m interested in you. Something wrong with that? Ain’t many girls who decide to be a doctor.” , but he was also mad because Mama was going to send her off to college with the insurance money that was coming in the mail and he could not get any of the money to invest in his liquor store. Also, he would make fun of her about how colored woman are not suppose to become doctors. Walter Lee ruined her dream anyways because the money that was suppose to be paying for college was given away to Willy and