If you received a big life
insurance check today, what would you spend it on? If it came from your father’s
insurance and he spent his whole life working to get that money for your
family, how would you spend it? Would you use it to buy something that he
always wanted for the family or would you split it up between the family
members and let them use it how they want?
That is the story behind A Raisin in the Sun. The Younger family
had this experience and situation happen to them. Walter Lee Sr. worked his
whole life so he could try to make his family’s life better. That moment
finally came for the family, and now the question is what should they do with
the money? The life insurance check worth $10,000 just arrived and all the
kids are already being greedy over it. Mama, however, is one of the only people
that wants to use this money for the good of her family instead of the kids
using it for their own personal uses. Mama has her deceased husband’s goals in
mind when she decides to use the check. Walter Lee Sr. always wanted his family
to be able to get out of the impoverished areas of Chicago and live a nice
life, a life that most black families at that time could not have. Mama decided
to use the money to buy her family a nice house in a white neighborhood that
would give her family a different, better life.
It seemed like Beneatha
wanted to use the money for the good of the family because she kept saying that
it was their father's money and they should use it how he wanted, however, she
also wanted to use some of the money to help pay for her schooling. Walter Lee
Jr. on the other hand wanted to use the money to invest in a liquor store
because he figured that if they invested in that then they would make a quick
return on it and would have more than just $10,000. I believe that in the end
Mama made the best decision by using her husband’s money for something that he
wanted for the whole family.
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