Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Even though parents get mad at their kids, they will always love them and try their best to support them. In the play A Raisin in the Sun the playwright Lorraine Hansberry shows a conflict between Walter Younger and Lena Younger, the mother of Walter and Beneatha. They live together with Walters wife Ruth and their son Travis in a one bedroom apartment on the south side of Chicago. Walter is a chauffeur, but wants to be a businessman that way he can provide for his family. His family doesn’t have enough money to help him invest and Lena doesn’t support his newest business venture to open a liquor store. Their family has just came into a little bit of money they are getting from Big Walter’s life insurance. The money is for Lena, but Walter wants to use some of it for his investment which is where the conflict between them occurs. …show more content…
Lena doesn’t like the idea of opening a liquor store because it interferes with her morals so she tells him “ And there ain’t going to be no investing in no liquor store … I don’t aim to have speak on that again (A long pause).”(Hansberry 70-71). Walter thinks his mother is not treating him like a grown man and is not even taking the time to listen to him or look at the contract. She doesn’t want to hurt Walter; she just thinks “ It just wasn’t the thing for us to do.” (72). Lena is a huge believer of God and already had problems with Beneatha earlier about this subject. She is fine with alcohol; she just doesn’t want her family around