Originally posted by Lestov16
Was required reading for me in high school. A great story obviously, but give me Pacific Rim over A Raisin In The Sun any day.
Originally posted by COG Veteran
Great read. I was in sixth grade back then tho.
ok cool,, a quick question, What is Walter Lee concerned about throughout the play?
Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
ok cool,, a quick question, What is Walter Lee concerned about throughout the play?
I may be wrong but...
IIRC Walter was concerned with pride throughout the play. He had a job as a lowly chauffeur catering rich people, obviously envying their easy lives. He also envied Beneatha's (IIRC) boyfriend. He felt insecure, and that also led to irrational pride. Walter wanted to show that you didn't need to be eloquent or booksmart to be rich. He and his entire family spent his entire life doing laborious work, and he wanted to show that even without the university education, he was equal to wealthy elite whom he humiliatingly drove around. He also had a desire to show everybody in is family that he was smart enough to handle the family's affairs. His pride led him to make the wrong investment, his overwhelming prideful desire to show everybody his success making him irrational and selfishly ignoring his family's desires, and even worse, blinding him to the vulnerability of leaving his money with such an seedy character as Willy Harris. Pride was his downfall.
I guess that's how it relates to Langston Hughes original poem. Walter Lee was so concerned about his dream not being deferred, about his personal desires not being ignored and forgotten, that he selfishly put his own desires above his family and was unwilling to compromise his dream to help achieve the dreams of his family members, who also had aspiration of what to do with the money. This unwillingness to defer his dream, to put his pride aside and face the sad reality that we can not always get what we desire, leads to his downfall, the tragic theft of the money.
I hope this answers your question. Note I just took 2 gravity bong hits, so you'll have to subjectively determine whether the info is accurate.