How Does Walter Build Suspense In A Raisin In The Sun

The plot has some suspense which makes the audience curios. For instance when Walter wakes up he asks about a check and then Travis does the same thing. Yet the audience has no idea about what the check is or why they cannot wait for it. This keeps the audience thinking. One then finds out that it is an insurance check of Mama's husband and Walter wants the money to invest them in a liquor store. Then it reveals that it is a ten thousand dollars check. Then one knows that Mama has some intentions about using it. She wants to buy a new house and keep some money for Beneatha's education to become a doctor. (loos42)
There is also suspense about Ruth. As at the beginning of the play, Ruth looks pale. Walter asks her what is wrong and shortly Mama asks her the same question. Yet by the end of the scene, Ruth loses her conscious, so the audience knows that there is a serious thing happening. Even when the next scene opens, one still does not know what happens to Ruth. Then she appears and mama guesses that she is pregnant which make the audience guess the same. Ruth then affirms her pregnancy but she look worried about something. Mama asks her where she has been but suddenly Walter enters and the suspense extended. (loos44)
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(John 2). One can see that this family is strong. They know very well what they are involving themselves in, moving into an all-white neighborhood, and they are going to face it. They are proud of their heritage. So, they believe that no one can push them out of their new house. The play ends as they start to move to the new house. They know that it will not be easy for them to live there because of the prejudice they will face but they insist on moving forward regardless of it. Lorraine Hansberry empathies on the value of the mutual love in the family and that the cooperation of the family can lift all members up. (Loos

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