Posted by Paula Scoggins (165.196.97.34) on June 22, 2005 at 3:23:58 p.m.:
In Reply to: Discussion # 2 "Raisin in the Sun" posted by Kammy Sahota on June 21, 2005 at 7:14:22 p.m.:
>Hello Kammy.
I totally agree with you. I too thought the family must be insane, or had lived a life of oppression for so long that they couldn’t see living any other way. The Younger family did have their share of problems. I thought however, that Walter Lee was afraid to try in fear of succeeding. Sometimes people fall in the trap of getting everything fast. I am a true believer that anything worth having involves some type of work, be it physical or mental and Walter Lee thought everyone owed him. He thought his sister owed him because he was the oldest; he thought is mom owed him because he was her son. What he failed to see was that he really owed himself, to be the man he became in the end of the play. Struggle for the Younger’s was a part of life for them, so for them to not move into the house, they had to lose a love one to afford, was already a big burden. To lose the money that they had received as part of that settlement, was also a burden, so to move into a neighborhood, where they were not wanted was the easy part. They had lived in a world already where to them they were not accepted so moving to Clybourne Park was nothing. This move was the awakening of all their dreams. Their dreams would no longer be deferred.