# data[].attributes.body
Selfish Love by Jessie Ware

Selfish love, why do I do these things?
I break you down, just to get my way
Selfish love, darlin', you do it, too
You tell me lies and I bend the truth

# data[].attributes.body
These lyrics pretty much sum up Walter's behavior as to being selfish, because in these lyrics, she's saying that she breaks you down, just to get her way, which is what Walter is doing. He may not realize it or not, be he is breaking down their family emotionally and financially, just to get his liquor store and his money. And he doesn't even realize is, most likely, because he's so selfish.

# data[].attributes.body
Narrow-minded
"Son, how come you talk so much ‘bout money?” Walter: “Because, it is life, Mama!” Mama: “Oh—so now its life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom use to be life—now its money. I guess the world really do change…” Walter: “No—it was always money, Mama. We just didn’t know about it." (p.74)

This quote shows Walter is pretty narrow-minded,saying that having money and being rich is what life is about. He's not really showing that he cares for his family, how they feel, because in reality he doesn't. He doesn't get the fact that there's more to life then just money. And he still believes that money is the way to go for full satisfaction and happiness in life.

# data[].attributes.body
Selfish
"What you need me to say you done right for? You the head of this family. You run our lives like you want to. It was your money and you did what you wanted with it. So what you need me to say it was all right for? So you butchered up a dream of mine—you—who always talking ‘bout your children’s dreams"

This quote shows Walter being selfish towards his family, because he and him only still believes that money is the most important part of life.

# data[].attributes.body
In A Raisin In The Sun the main focus point for me especially, and most readers was the conflict between Walter getting what he wanted and what he thought was best, and his poor family. Walter was being really selfish, not understanding what was most important in life, and not listening to his family, especially Mama. Mama really knew what she was talking about and tried to help Walter, but he wouldn't listen and change his ways because of his selfishness, and how narrow-minded he was.

And this same theme, or conflict per say, really goes along great with Fences. The dad and the main character was Troy, and he was a lot like Walter, with his selfishness. Troy is sort of stuck back in the "good old days", with how he was raised and how he took on life. But like Walter, he's too narrow-minded to know and see that the world is changing, right in front of his face. But he doesn't want to face those facts anyway, and so he handles that by taking it out on his family, which is who he really needs to take advice from. So Walter and Troy are a lot alike, through their selfishness and their narrow-mindedness towards life, and their family.

# data[].attributes.body
I think Walter is very selfish and narrow-minded most of the time, but he isn't a horrible husband/dad. He does care about his family, and if he didn't he wouldn't be going to work everyday trying to provide for his family. He's just doing it in the wrong sense, he needs to find a different way. A way that provides and cares for his family, but without leaving out what's necessary in life, and that doesn't make him look selfish

# data[].attributes.body
This represents Walter and his selfish behavior towards his family, because it clearly shows how the fish isn't paying attention to anything else, just himself. Just like how Walter is just focused on making his money and owning a liquor store.

# data[].attributes.body
Francie Lynch Nov 2018

Out of Love

As a young man in love,
I was selfish.
I walked with you,
I shared food,
I slept with you,
It was my insatiable thirst;
Desire, and
I needed to gulp it,
At any cost,
For survival.
Perhaps you felt likewise.
I didn't know.

Now, being older,
That
Which I do
Out of love,
I do for you.

This poem relates to Walter being selfish, because it talks about how the young man was being selfish in the beginning, but as he was growing up, he understood what he was missing. This goes back to Walter's situation, where he just doesn't get how making money and living rich in that specific way isn't the right way to live, at least in his family's perspective. Instead, he needs to become the older man in this poem, and fully understand what it's like to live life to the fullest, and to understand what his family desperately needs from him.