Walter Lee Younger a Materialist portrait

A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry poses conflicts of a black family in Chicago and presents Walter Lee Younger as one of the more important and influential to the plot. Walter Lee Younger is a frustrated 35 year old chauffeur who lives with his poor African-American family in a small apartment in Chicago. There are important actions that determine his personality in the play and his involvement. He is always dreaming of ways to make money and improve the family’s live. The plot revolves around him and the actions that he takes, and his character evolves the most during the course of the play. Most of his actions and mistakes manipulate the family greatly, but his belated rise to manhood makes him a sort of hero in the last scene. Walter believes that money can buy the happiness of his family; therefore, he is incapable of taking on the responsibilities implied when being head of a household. Walter Lee Younger, the key character in this play, which has the power withi...