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"A Raisin In The Sun": An Analysis - College Essays

"A Raisin In The Sun": An Analysis

"A Raisin In The Sun" is a play written by an African-American
playwright - Lorraine Hansberry. It was first produced in 1959. Lorraine
Hansberry's work is about a black family in the Chicago's South-Side after
the Second World War. The family consisted of Mama(Lena Younger), Walter
Lee(her son), Ruth (his wife), Travis (their son), and Beneatha (Walters
younger sister). The Younger family lived in poor conditions, and can't
afford to have better living standards. However, Lena is waiting to
receive a $10,000 check from her late-husbands insurance money. The two
main characters in the play, Mama and Walter, want this money to be used
for the benefits of the whole family. Even though both ...

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of better life for his family and himself. A dream of financial
security and comfortable living. Ruth, on the other hand is stable and down
to earth. She doesn't make rash choices to accommodate a dream. She will
just make do with what she has. Mama is a loving person, she is wise but
lives in the past. She is happy to have her family with and be safe from
society. She thinks that money is not something that makes a family happy.

Besides dreams Walter also has a husbands responsibilities which
are universally thought of as being able to support his family and raise
his children so they are morally in line with what he believes in. Walter's
problem, however, seems to be that he is building his supposedly well
thought out plan of investing money in a liquor store into something he is
infactuated with. By creating this infactuation, he is not able to achieve
his responsibilities. Besides having responsibilities Walter also has his
manly pride. All throughout the story Walter Lee ...

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