A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, shows how a family struggled with money while living in Chicago. For most people, there are always going to be financial struggles at least once in life. For the Younger family, Walter wants to open up a liquor store with the check that Mama is going to get in the mail. The whole family is impatient and can't wait for the check to arrive. "That money belongs to Mama, Walter, and it's for her to decide how she wants to use it. I don't care if she wants to buy a house or a rocket ship or just nail it up somewhere and look at it. It's hers. Not ours - hers," shows how the family wants it to belong to them (1628). Beneatha believes that Walter wants the money more than Mama does.
A lot of the time in life, people want what is not there's. For example, a car, a house, a job, a relationship, material items or just money like in this case. We get jealous easily and it makes us think that we deserve what someone else has. Beneatha says, "Walter, give up; leave me alone - it's Mama's money" (1629). As a society, we should earn what we get and not just have it given to us. A lot of the time, people waste money on items, but Mama says she wants to put some of it away for Beneatha and her schooling. Walter and Ruth had plans to live in the house they are in for a short while, but they did not have enough funds to move and refurnish a house in Morgan Park, Illinois.
Ruth says that they need the money and Mama adds, "Somebody would of thought my children done all but starved to death the way they talk about money here late. Child, we got a great big old check coming tomorrow" (1631). The rest of the family knows that they have nothing to do with it and Ruth thinks Mama should go on a trip and use some of the money she is getting. Many college students have financial struggles, we should all learn to spend our money wisely and to save it for the future.
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