Beneatha Younger

Beneatha Younger is Walter's sister in A Raisin in the Sun. Beneatha is outgoing and a determined person. She wants to become a doctor because she believes doctors can fix the sick.  When Beneatha was younger she witnessed her friend Rufus go sledding and crack his face open. She thought that that was the end of Rufus but Rufus came back with only a little line down his face and Beneatha knew ever since then that she wanted to become a doctor. Towards the middle of the play, when Walter loses all of Beneatha's tuition money for medical school, she tells Mama that her and Walter aren't brother and sister anymore. When Walter comes back from "work", because he has been skipping for the last three days and going to the bar, Beneatha tells him that she is 'no brother of hers'. In the end of the play, Beneatha comes to the conclusion that she doesn't want to be a doctor anymore. She realized that doctors can't fix everything and she feels can't help people.