A Raisin in the sun is a play that portrays a black family living in the bad side of Chicago. The family comprises of Mama; the matriarch of the family, her son Walter, daughter Beneatha, Walter wife Ruth and their son Travis. The family is living in a cramped apartment, with limited privacy and space as well as a shared bathroom with another tenant. The two members of the family that are actively working in the job market hold low paying jobs in the service industry. The family has money problems

The racism and sexism being shown in the Raisin in The Sun demonstrates that the matrix of domination is in play. In the book, Beneatha is an African-American woman who is battling not only racism, but also sexism. She battles racism by attending medical school during the civil right movement era and

During the 1950s and 1960s, African Americans faced numerous challenges as they fought for their rights and sought to fulfill their aspirations in a racially divided society. Lorraine Hansberry's play, "A Raisin in the Sun," explores the dreams and values of the Younger family as they navigate the obstacles of poverty, racism, and generational differences in pursuit of a better life. Mama is an elderly widow and the matriarch of the Younger family. Mama's problem is the struggle to provide a better

In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry starts off with Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem,” to show what can happen to dreams that get caught in the middle of life. In Hansberry’s play a family of five African Americans live in a small crouched apartment on the south side of Chicago. Hughes’ poem relates to Hansberry’s characters because each one of them has a separate dream, however, not everyone’s comes true and “stink like rotten meat” (Harlem 6). The dream deferred can refer to anyone in the play

A Raisin in The Sun “Family is not just an important thing; it is everything”- Michael J. Fox. A Raisin in The Sun is written by Lorraine Hansberry, a twenty-nine-year-old woman from Chicago, Illinois. This story is about the Younger family, an African American family who live in a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago and mourn the death of their patriarch (Big Walter). One day, they get a big amount of money from Big Walters insurance payment, but no one is really sure how to use the money in an

A Raisin in the Sun Money is one of the things in the world that a person can become obsessed with. In the story “A Raisin in the sun” the author Lorraine Hansberry shows how a family is changed by the lust of money. A widow, Lena, her son Walter Younger, his wife Ruth and daughter Beneatha all lived under the same roof. Lena just lost her husband and is receiving a check for his death. With the money, Lena wants to buy a new house for the whole family to live in but everyone else in the family sees

In A Raisin in The Sun there is certainly a lot of loss to go through, as well as many different and opposing values. Walter, for example, was obsessed with being able to provide for his family and have the money to show for it. In his attempts to achieve this goal he ends up bankrupting the family and leaving them much worse off than before, all through his own selfishness and sense of pride. Walter at first wants to open a liquor store with the money left over by his late father, figuring it would

In Lorraine Hansberry’s play,” A Raisin in the Sun” Beneatha Younger has great dreams for her future, but there are issues such as, race, education, and gender that stand in the way. Beneatha’s dreams of finding who she really is and becoming a doctor are affected by her gender in the play. Walter says to Beneatha,“I'm interested in you. Something wrong with that? Ain’t many girls who decide…to become a Doctor” Bennie helps him finish his sentence (Hansberry 36). There were female doctors in the