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WALTER LEE YOUNGER

Character Description:

  • Husband, father, son and brother

  • Lean, intense young man in his mid-thirties 

  • Dreams that owning a liquor store will provide a way out of an economically depressed Chicago tenement dwelling 

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Credits to:

  • Gill, G. (2005). Sean Combs's 2004 Broadway Portrayal of Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun": A Historical Assessment. The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 17(3), 57-77.

  • https://www.litcharts.com/lit/a-raisin-in-the-sun/characters/mrs-johnson

  • Hatch, J.V., & Shine T. (1996). Black theatre USA: Plays by African Americans 1935 to today (Rev. and expanded ed.). New York: Free Press.

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