Question Three. A Raisin in the Sun. 2

It is extremely evident while looking at the novel as a whole, how certain characters contribute to the play regarding action.  Without diving in deep into the reading, we can clearly see what character plays the instigator, observer, and the bewildered. 

     Walter, though often times failing, attempted and occasionally succeeded in being the instigator.  He was the individual that went out every single day to bring the meager amount of money back home. Though it was not much, it allowed them to live.  This fact alone dignified him as an instigator because on many other occasions he dreamed in excess.

     Without even reading the questions prior to reading the play, Travis honestly stood out to me as the observer of the play.  He never truly had a deep impact on the action of the play, but he seemed to be in the picture when something significant was happening. In being the observer, he retained much of what happened in that house.  

     More so in the later portions of the play, Mama played the bewildered and confused individual. "Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change..."(Hansberry, 74).  The generation gap that separated her from the rest of her family prevented her from being aware of society's changes.  This being the case, it caused her to be in perpetual disbelief in Walter's motives, Bennie's beliefs, and society's new found love in money.