Raisin In The Sun Literary Analysis

What would you do with ten thousands of dollars? Raisin in the Sun is about an African American family who received a check of ten thousands of dollars from their late father/husband. The check is meant for Mama for she can do something with the check. Walter wants the money to buy a liquor, Beneatha doesn’t care, well that is what she says and Mama doesn’t know what to do with money. Mama wants the best for her family and wants to use the money for a good use. Mama loves her family and shows she doesn’t care about money and just cares about her family, showing she has morals because she shares her money with her children, she is tough love on them and she always thinks about them. Mama shares her money with her children because when she received ten thousand dollars she didn’t knew what to do with them. ”We was going to set away, little by little don’t you know and buy a little place out in Morgan Park.” (Hansberry, 45). Mama wants to share this house with her family and make sure they are well. She wanted to do something with the money that would benefit her and her …show more content…
She is tough on them because she doesn’t want them to end up in jail or dead, like a normal mother wouldn’t want for their kids. “I’m sorry ‘bout your liquor store, son. It just wasn’t the thing for us to do..” Mama crushed Walter’s dream because she didn’t think that his dream wouldn’t of have benefited them.She would be tough on Walter for not giving him the money for the liquor because she felt that it wasn’t the right thing. She even slapped Beneatha for speaking about god saying that he doesn’t exist and never helped them out. Mama slapped her because Mama and her husband believed in god, and thought that Beneatha was disrespecting god and her father. “You my children but how different we done become.” Mama is talking about how Walter is becoming ambitious about the money and being thankful for having a healthy