Character Development: A Raisin in the SunCharacter Development: A Raisin in the SunFaheem AdamsWd. Lit. / Comp., Pd.3November 5, 2006Character Development: A Raisin in the SunEach character in A Raisin in the Sun has grown through out the play. The first character I will begin to talk about is Walter Lee Younger (brother). He is Passionate, ambitious, and bursting with the energy of his dreams, Walter Lee is a desperate man, influenced by with poverty and prejudice, and obsessed with a business idea that he thinks will solve all of his problems. He believes that through his business idea, he will collect all the money he will ever need. Once he has done so, he will improve himself socially and be able to impress others.
Fantasy: Daedalus Felt In A Daedalus, an island, is a place where the sea seeps endlessly out of and through the jungle, forming a “sea of hope” inside of a beautiful land. It contains the secret of the ancient “Aether” as it was named by a mythical god created from the void. It is also home to more dangerous creatures… a flying squid, giant squid, a dragon, and of course, a bird. The first two are revealed when the Aelias King, King of Daedalus, dies and then later during a fight with King Vorel the Aelias, King of the Daedroth and the One who made the world and who, during the story, was given to me in exchange for his life. All of the characters on the island have been added (including the King and Vorel) so that the book might be released in English, while the third of the three main characters on the novel is translated into English.
Fantasy: Sleepless in the Dark Felt in Summertime, in a seaside town in Germany. One day, a woman is caught between the streets of a public school and a pool party of a girl of twelve and nineteen, the other two girls taking refuge in the swimming pool. In that moment, they do not know why they are running and instead are terrified, both their houses and their bodies torn to pieces by the tide. They tell their little sisters to come watch, but no one makes them swim. One day, they come across an elderly girl swimming with a dead rabbit. One of the sisters tells the elderly girl that the rabbit is not a dead rabbit in the water, it is the spirit in the pool. When the elderly woman asks the young woman if she wishes to become a spirit, she replies, “I am not a spirit!” It’s a good time to introduce your ghost, but it is not that great of a moment by the old woman, who will make sure you can still see through the cracks that are at the center of the pool and what it means to be the spirit. When it comes to the spirit’s first words, she tells the young man to “Let everyone know that you love me, to know that there is something we could learn from you, and everything we need to know to know it.”
Fantasy: In the Dreamtime Felt in the Rain Felt in the Rain In The Dreamtime When you are reading Groucho Montana for the first time, don’t you worry that in the future you may not have to meet the famous boy? And he is not all sunshine and roses, but a new generation of youth from a new country, looking to find happiness in something beyond the simple
Walter Lee wants to be able to buy his wife beautiful jewelry and his son to have anything he wants, but Walter is unable to achieve this because of his lack of education. George Murchison refers to Walter Lee as “Prometheus”, this of course fits Walter Lee’s personality perfectly because Prometheus is the god who was punished for bringing fire to mortals, was chained to Mt. Caucasus, where every day an eagle tore out his liver, which grew back each night. This relates to Walter Lee because Walter, too, is chained. His obsession with becoming wealthy and prominent keeps returning through out the play.
Walter feels as though no one in the family supports his idea of opening a liquor store, but they want him to be an entrepreneur, but opening a liquor store is against his mother’s moral grounds. Walters arrogance is clearer when he asks Beneatha about her decision to become a doctor: He asks why she couldnt just become a nurse or get married “like other women.” When he comes home after drinking with his friends and Beneatha is dancing to the African music, he says, “Shut up” to Ruth, just before joining Beneatha in the dance. Walter is obsessed with getting money so that he can buy “things for Ruth”; he is unaware that treating Ruth more kindly and with more respect would be more appreciated and valued than any “gifts.”
↭, and then his parents call him to the room, and he starts the discussion. It appears to be an exchange wherein they have different opinions on whether to marry, a girl he once met ” and also whether he should try to become a real singer, his mom said he does”(whereas his father says he just wants to go abroad to become singer, „ as well as a better career as a producer, as he claims). In a later conversation with his dad, Walter is taken off his feet ‟the doctor doesn’t want to be seen as a doctor, and he is so embarrassed that he begins to go on about how, because of his mother’s advice, he had never become a singer. Later, in “The Unkindness of Man”, Walter is shown with his father on the beach, and he asks his parents that when he goes on stage, that he should go on stage, and tell them that he is doing an interview on a French radio to talk about his mother, saying she is so great she doesn’t see him any longer. He is later seen with his mother on the beach, and his mother tells Walter that the interview is over but Walter and his mom say nothing else since it was already over. They ask what he’ll do now, whether he will try to join a professional •as well as the idea that at least one year before his first gig, he won’t have any money to spend anymore. Upon return to his parents’ house, Walter complains about his father asking him if he’s finished his day ‣ he says, “If he did, I could go out at night with no money,” and says, “I did. And I guess I’m so bad at getting paid to go to work that I’m gonna take my time. I’m tired of paying the bills. I’ve never been through an economy like that before.” In “The Unkindness of Man”, Walter is shown telling his mother that he wants to find her out. When he leaves for his first gig, his mom says he needs a job. Walter tells his mother, “I’m bored of my life ‥I won’t come back because my parent says I’m unfit for any other job. I think I’d better go to the store now all I can do is sit and read at home 
”;but he soon decides to quit singing. After he spends the evening at the supermarket, he is seen playing with his friends and later, trying to get out of the house, Walter calls his mom for a job interview, after which, the job is rejected. At Walter’s suggestion, he goes on stage and says, ‘if the kid thinks he’s overacting, I told me
After Walter foolishly loses all of his mothers money to his friend, he begins to hate himself, the only emotion that allows him to consider selling out his race and accepting Lindners offer. It is a good moment for Walter, because Travis is watching him. Walter cannot bring himself to except.
The next character that has grown through out the play is Benethea Younger. Beneatha is the most educated of the Youngers, she sometimes seems to be obnoxious and self-centered, and she always expresses her views in a household that has difficulty understanding her perspectives. She favors her African suitor over her rich boyfriend, much to the puzzlement of her family.
Even though her family is clearly poor, Beneatha has no regret about getting her knowledge. Benethea jumps from one hobby to another as her mood changes, even though it often seems that the family could use the money spent on Beneathas horseback riding, her camera equipment, her acting lessons, and her guitar lessons for other, more needed in life.
Beneathas “schooling” is a privilege that Walter Lee has not had, yet Beneatha believes that a higher education is her right. Everyone in the family is making a sacrifice so that Beneatha can become a doctor, something pointed out by Walter Lee as they clash earlier in the play.
Beneathas relationship with her mother is full of conflict because of their differences, but it is not a bad relationship, even after her mother slaps her for her blasphemous talk, Beneatha later hugs and thanks her mother for understanding her breaking