Theme Of Money In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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In A Raisin In the Sun Walter Lee Younger believes that money represents new opportunities. In this novel by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Lee associated money with new privileges, for not only him, but his comrades, and his whole family. An example that shows Walter’s association with money is when Walter is talking to Ruth about his current life, “Stories about how rich white people live”(34). During this part of the book, Walter is hoping that by purchasing a liquor store, maybe his son can have stories about people like him, and not want to grow up like a rich white man. By Walter Lee wanting to start his own business, he gives Travis other options when growing up. Instead of trying to be conformed into the life that he had, Walter Lee wants