English 102

Donna Peters

Professor Rachel Corona

November 14, 2014

                                                                    

 Character chosen:   Walter Lee                                                                       

Everyone experience hard life and personal struggles. But the outcome of our lives depends on us. Life is 10 percent of what happen to us and 90 percent of how we handle it. Sad to say Walter had his fair share struggles from childhood but just didn’t handle it too well. His parent grew him and his sister Bennie in a one bed rom roach ridden apartment, where they partially shared facility with another family. Mama and papa were hard working people but they just couldn’t get their resources together to either rent another place or purchase a home.

Walter and Bennie eventually reach adulthood in the same home, but Beanie decided to discontinue the family tradition by taking a more positive approach to life. She became a med student. Walter had a more get rich quick mentality out of his circumstances, and he was determine to use his father’s death insurance benefit that belong to his mother to invest into a liquor business. I chucked at the idea, because he never discussed the idea with his mom, yet he had this crazy notion all penned out, despite being discourage by his wife (Ruth) and sister who didn’t share his dream of success.

I choose this Character because I think like Walter lots of people has great idea, but has the wrong approach to make it happen. Walters’s idea for doing business was a good idea. But, a liquor business might not have been the best idea considering he himself had an alcoholic problem. His family knew that all too well and sort to discourage him. No one in their right mind would have encourage Walter to go into something that would have support his bad habit and might eventually run the business into the red. If Walter had chosen a more favorable business and a less demanding attitude for the money it might have yield a more favorable outcome.

Walter lee played a very significant role to this play for his character is a reality of life even now has then. He had a stinking attitude, which prevented him from achieving much and made life very difficult for him and those around him. He needed to learn humility and a complete different approach to petitionary.