Walter lee younger character sketch

He will, he believes, finally be able to provide material necessities and even luxuries for his
wife. Walter asks in desperation why shouldn't his wife wear pearls. Who decides, he
wonders, which women should wear pearls in this world? However, Walter proves
throughout the drama that he does not possess the entrepreneurial skills necessary to
succeed in business. His education is sorely lacking, a fact made most clear in his
confrontation with George Murchison. When George says, "Good night Prometheus’’

Walter is like Prometheus in his attitude, and consequently, their fates are
similar. Prometheus challenged the rules of the gods and stole fire for
mankind. Walter believes that his ideas are better than any one else and that
he needs to be an angry black man against the world to make his way.
Prometheus is punished by having to suffer everyday having his liver eaten
away by birds (only to have it repeated again the next day...he is immortal).
Walter, when his business venture fails and he loses everyone's money, has
to live daily with the guilt over doing this. As a parallel, Walter, too, is chained, and
likewise, his obsessive dream restores what his frustrations devour. Sadly, Walter never
sees any way out of his economic distress other than the liquor store, which his mother
opposes solely on moral grounds

alter Lee Younger, sometimes called "Brother." Passionate, ambitious, and bursting with the
energy of his dreams, Walter Lee is a desperate man, shackled by poverty and prejudice,
and obsessed with a business idea that he thinks will solve all of his economic and social
problems. He believes, for example, that through his business idea, he will suddenly
accumulate all the money he will ever need. Then, with this sudden accumulation of capital,
he will improve himself socially and will be looked up to by others — all the people who, he
believes, do not think much of him as a man
Walter's chauvinism is evident immediately when he tells his wife, Ruth, that for a fleeting
moment, she "looked young . . . real young . . . but . . . it's gone now.