dried up grape: 4

I didn't really care for either of Mama's children.  I found Walter to be condescending and delusional, and Beneatha to be inconsiderate and self-absorbed. 
Walter was a man consumed by his own bitterness and dashed dreams.  I felt like I was reading about a crazy person when Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun described the scene of Walter actually believing for a while that he was a tribal leader in an African jungle.  Only once or twice did he mention the actual death of his father.  All he could think about was how to convince Mama to let him take it all to fulfill HIS dreams.  "Here I am a giant--surrounded by ants!  Ants who can't even understand what it is the giant is talking about" (Hansberry, 484).  He thinks that no one understands him, when he hasn't tried to understand anyone else's ideas as to what to do with the money.  I was disgusted when he betrayed Mama and used all of the money for his failure of an investment, instead of using a portion of it to help pay for his sister's education.
Beneatha is just as crazy in her own way.  She never seemed to be satisfied, always lecturing someone about the way he or she was choosing to live.  She had wasted much needed money on frivalous items such as guitar lessons, horseback riding, etc.  Beneatha overall just made every situation and conversation more dramatic than it needed to be.