herself and her children, as she and Mr. Younger had always dreamed. She believes the money represents her husband's lifelong hard work and his determination to build a good life for his family. Buying a house is very important to Mama; she feels it will make a huge difference in their lives.

Walter is also impacted by money, and his actions with it directly impact Mama. When he ends up losing the money, which was supposed to pay for the new house, Beneatha's education, and Walter's liquor store idea, Mama is absolutely devastated. She feels as though everything her husband has worked for is gone forever, and it forces her to reexamine what is important to her in life.

Beneatha connects money to her education and her dreams of becoming a doctor. When Walter loses the money that was supposed to pay her school tuition, she despairs, claiming that he had just ripped her future right out of her hands. Money contributes to the breakdown of Beneatha and Walter's relationship. She feels as though her brother has destroyed her dreams and she has no reason to love him anymore.

Money is one of the central themes in the story "A Raisin in the Sun." The characters begin the story by arguing over what to do with the money from a life insurance check, as Walter feels like he should get to do what he wants with it but Mama is the one with the ultimate responsibility for making decisions.

Throughout the story, the family plans to buy a new house in a nice, all white neighborhood with the sum of money they received. Unfortunately, a large portion of the money is stolen after they buy the house and they are left without security or an ability help their financial situation.

The majority of the story revolves around money and the opportunities it gives. While it can be seen as a vice, it is clearly shown that lack of money is a much worse situation than having the vices that come with too much money.

Money has a significant role in the play and is the source of conflict among the members of the Younger family. Money also drives the plot of the play and helps characterize the members of the Younger family. The Younger family lives in poverty and resides together in a cramped, worn-down South Side apartment. However, the Younger family's financial situation seems to greatly improve when Lena receives a ten thousand dollar insurance check after the death of her husband. Each member of the Younger family has their own ideas of how to spend the money in order to attain their individual dreams and aspirations.

Conflict immediately arises regarding how to spend the insurance money. Walter Jr. is a passionate, desperate man who is sick of working as a chauffeur and wishes to attain financial freedom by investing in a liquor business. However, Lena does not initially support her son's dream because of her Christian ideals, which greatly affects Walter's attitude as he becomes extremely depressed about not fulfilling his dream. Beneatha, who is an intelligent, confident young woman, wishes to use the insurance money to pay for her college education so that she can become a doctor. However, the other members of her family do not support her dream because it challenges the social conventions of the time. Lena wishes to use the money to buy a newer, spacious home where her family can live comfortably and enjoy themselves. Ruth is the only member of the family who shares Lena's dream, and Lena ends up purchasing a home in the white neighborhood of Clybourne Park.

After Lena makes an initial down payment, she sympathizes with her son and ends up giving him $6500 to invest in his liquor business and pay for some of Beneatha's education. Unfortunately, Walter Jr. gets cheated by one of his business partners and loses the money his mother gave him. The loss of $6500 presents another conflict in the play and negatively affects the dynamic of the Younger family. Beneatha turns on her brother and Walter wallows in self-pity. Towards the end of the play, Walter Jr. decides to meet with Mr. Lindner and plans on selling Lena's home back to the white community in order to make up for losing the money. Before Walter Jr. signs the necessary paperwork to make the transaction, Lena tells Travis to watch his father make a deal with Mr. Lindner while she speaks about their family's proud ancestors. At that moment, Walter Jr. experiences a change of heart and demonstrates his integrity by refusing to sell Lena's home back to the white community of Clybourne Park. Overall, money symbolically represents hope for the Younger family and is a constant source of conflict throughout the play. Money also drives the plot and helps reveal the characters' different aspirations and values.

Money is a very important theme in A Raisin in the Sun. On the one hand, it's presented as something that can offer African-Americans a chance to get on in white society. It's intended that the money from Mr. Younger's insurance policy will buy the family a new house in a white neighborhood, giving them higher status and social respectability.

Part of the insurance payout is also to be used to put Beneatha through medical school. Once she's qualified as a doctor, Beneatha will be a well-paid, highly-respected professional able to take her place in mainstream society.

However, the flip side of all this is that money can be a curse as well as a blessing. Instead of seeing the insurance payout as a catalyst for social mobility, Walter just sees it as an opportunity to invest in shady schemes. His loss of the money ruins so many of his family's plans, holding them back from fulfilling their dreams.

In A Raisin in the Sun, then, money is both a source of salvation and ruination, as it can so easily be for most people.

Money enables the Younger family for the first time to realize their dreams an attain financial freedom. Even though Lena is the beneficiary of her husband's $10,000 insurance check, each person in the household has their own specific idea of how the money should be spent on their individual dream. Beneatha wishes that she could use the money to pay for her college education to support her dream of one day becoming a doctor. In contrast, Walter wants to use the money to fund getting into the liquor business, which he believes is a lucrative investment. Lena and Ruth simply want to use the money to move out of their cramped, run-down South Side apartment.

Walter's dream and ideas of how to use the money creates a divide throughout the household. Walter is adamant that investing in his liquor business will be a success and becomes sorely depressed when Lena initially dismisses his dream. However, Lena generously allows Walter to use the majority of the money to invest in his dream after she puts a down payment on a home in Clybourne Park. Unfortunately, Walter's business partner steals the money, which forces Walter to make a difficult decision concerning whether or not he will sell Lena's house back to the all-white neighborhood commission. In this way, money becomes an issue that negatively impacts the family's trajectory. Overall, money is portrayed as an outside force that can either fund or destroy a person's dream. 

Money plays an essential role in the play, A Raisin in the Sun.  It is Hansberry's progressive and advanced attitude about American discrimination that she does a very skilled job of articulating the challenges the Younger family experiences on the ground of race and class, economics, and shows how both work in tandem with one another to provide obstacles to overcome in the pursuit of the American Dream.  Money impacts Walter, as he is trapped by the lack of economic opportunity for he and his family.  His desire to open a liquor store reflects his desire to make money, regardless of all else.  Money is also critical in his initial desire to accept the buyout offer from Lindner.  Money is a binding element for the entire family from the start of the play.  From Travis asking for fifty cents from school to Berneatha's medical school expenses, to the impending check that Mama uses to "buy" her family a new start at Clybourne Park, economics impacts the Younger family as it serves as a critical element in providing opportunity. When money is present, the family feels a certain hope which is only matched when money is absent or taken from them.  The role and presence of money in the play seems to be strongly linked to hope and opportunity.   Its presence opens up windows and doors for the Younger family, while its absence indicates closed paths and immense difficulties.  It is Hansberry's greatness in articulating that poor families of color in America at this time period, and to some extent even now, face two sets of social difficulties that act to create a setting where their dreams can result in being "a raisin in the sun."

The Younger family is a poor, working-class family striving to live together in tenement housing in the South Side of Chicago in the early 1960s.

A lack of money has left them with a lack of space. The money that Lena Younger retains from her dead husband's insurance policy has allowed them more space, though it is a space in which they are not wanted: all-white Clybourne Park.

When Ruth, Walter Younger's wife, finds out that she is pregnant, the concern is over how much it will cost to feed the child and that having another one could prevent the other characters' ability to do things. Ruth herself insists that they will move into a house as planned, even if she has to scrub the floor of every white family in town to afford it.

Walter's ambitions to open a liquor store with his friend Willy have less to do with a desire to provide for his family and more to do with becoming one of the men whom he chauffeurs around during the day.

Money, in the play, is the thing that stands between the characters and the comfortable, secure lives that they want. For some, such as Walter and his sister Beneatha, who dreams of being a doctor, it is what they need to become the people that they want to be.