In the play “Raisin in the Sun”, Walter is too selfish with all the money his mother gives him because he uses it all for himself, and he loses it all. In the play, Walter says “I never went to the bank”(Hansberry 129). He says this because after his mother bought the house with the insurance check, she gave him the leftover money which was $6500. She told him to use some of it for his sister, Bethea's education and put the rest of it in a savings account for himself. However, instead he uses it all for himself and doesn’t put it in the bank. In addition, later in the play, Walter says “all of it.. it’s all gone”(Hansberry 129). These words come out of Walter’s mouth because, after Mama gave him the money she told him to put it in a checking
