A Raisin in the Sun

I found Walter, a character in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, to be an antihero. He was an antihero because of the qualities that he displayed to his family and then the actions that he took when they were not around him. He constantly made wrong decisions while seeming to have the right intentions.
Walter was a central character in the story because of his background and abilities. He was the oldest male left in the younger family so naturally he would take the head of the family. Surprisingly, his mother held this role while seeming held back from being able to submit it to her son. He struggled with maintaining his job as a chauffeur and consistently let down his wife and mother.
"I'm telling you to be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be"(107), was the moment that Mama relinquished the position as head of the family onto Walter. Even after his mother seemed to hand over the responsibility in the family to Walter, he still made bad decisions and did not look out for the rest in his family. He invested all of their money in shady characters that then lost it. This resulted in him being broken. Broken in the sense that his mother beat him, his family was disappointed in him, and he was torn up with internal conflicts inside. He lost his pride and fell to a place that made him want to take money in order to prevent his family from moving up in their social order.
These qualities put together led me to believe that Walter should have made better decisions in order to be the appropriate hero for his family, but instead he displayed all of the qualities to make an applicable antihero.