Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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Lorraine Hansberry, the author of the play A Raisin in the Sun, uses the characters’ dreams to expose the nightmares of racism.  Each character wants to escape the “ghetto life on the South Side of Chicago” (Brubaker).  The Youngers are an African-American family living in Chicago during the 1950’s.  The play focuses on their dreams for a better future.  The play begins with the family waiting on a $10,000 life insurance check, as Walter senior has recently died.  Walter senior’s wife, Lena (Mama), her two adult children, Walter and Beneatha, Walter’s wife Ruth, and their son, Travis, all live together in a two-bedroom apartment.  The main characters has different dreams of what success means to them and how best to use the inheritance money; they know that the money is the key to unlocking a better life.  Mama, Walter, and Beneatha each pursue their own vision of the “American Dream”, but they all meet the same challenge of racism in the 1950’s.

Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of A Raisin in the Sun. She was the youngest of 4 children. Her mother Nannie was a school teacher. Her father was a successful real estate broker.

Throughout Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, we see the positive and negative effects of chasing the American Dream. Hansberry expresses her different views on the American Dream through the characters and she portrays the daily struggles of a 1950 black family throughout A Raisin in the Sun. In this play, she is able to effectively show the big impact that even small decisions can make on a family. Hansberry shows the many different attachments that come with the fulfillment of this American Dream. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, each family member has their own pursuit of happiness, which is accompanied by their American Dream.

Mama’s comment at him proves he has lost his pride by walking out. Another way Walter’s dreams compromise his pride is when he wants to accept Mr. Lindner ’s offer. Mr. Lindner’s offer is very tempting to Walter once they lose the money, and Walter decides the money is more important than his family’s pride. Beneatha doesn’t believe Walter will go through with the plan until he says, “We going to do business with him”

As the British-American author Simon Sinek most adequately stated, “There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.” This quote explains that with every seemingly good decision there will be consequences that come along with it. So, with Walter’s decision in a Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry to move into the white neighborhood there will be negative repercussions. Although Walter’s decision will not create the happy ending his family wanted, it is ultimately the right choice for not only the pride of his family, but also for the whole black community.

Beneatha's Race and Gender Discrimination Does the infamous term, “never judge a book by its cover” actually have an effect on how people form opinions about others? If it does, discrimination by race and gender will cease to exist, especially in the play Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Taking place in the 1950’s, an African-American family named the Youngers have been living in a world of poverty and racism for as long as they can remember. Due to the death of Mama’s husband, the members of the Younger family have been waiting to see the arrival of a 10,000 dollar life insurance check in hopes of escaping their financial despair. With each member having a unique dream of what the money could do for themselves, tension arises amongst

     Beneatha is an intellectual. Twenty years old, she attends college and is better educated than the rest of the Younger family. Some of her personal beliefs and views have distanced her from conservative Mama. She dreams of being a doctor and struggles to determine her identity as a well-educated black woman. She realizes her brother, Walter, dislikes the idea of spending the insurance money on the college tuition but is determined to be successful in her life: “BENEATHA: What are you talking about Ruth? Listen, I’m going to be a doctor … first I’m going to be a doctor! (I.i pg. 50)” Beneatha builds her frustration upon the doubts of her brother. When Walter

Lorraine Hansberry is a play writer and the first female writer to have a play performed on broadway. Langston hughes is an american poet, playwright, and social activist. During the Harlem renaissance, Hansberry and Hughes met and Hughes left a deep influence on Hansberry and this motivated her to keep writing. At this time Hansberry wrote a Raisin In the Sun, which was based on the poem, “ A Dream Deferred.” This play was a huge success and was the youngest American playwright at age 29.

"If you are so crazy about messing around with sick people—then go be a nurse like other women—or just get married and be quiet." Walter and Mama both expect Beneatha to follow the traditional path of a young woman, her age and her position in life. Like most young people at such a time, Beneatha is exploring the world to find out what fits” (Younger

In “A Raisin in the Sun” Lorraine Hansberry uses a setting similar to the way she lived as a child. Throughout the play Hansberry exemplifies how the setting Validates; furthermore, epitomizes the Younger family’s dire situation. “A Raisin In the Sun” was published by Lorraine Hansberry as a domestic tragedy. Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. She wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling black family, which opened on Broadway to great success.

Few plays have created a vision of 1950s American life as nuanced or multi-layered as A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. The stage of the play is set in Chicago in the home of a Youngers, an African-American family that live together in a small, squalid apartment. This close-knit family, though full of different personalities, has a dynamic which drives the story forward. Lena, known as Mama by everyone in the household, is the family matriarch and recently turned widow with a fiery personality and wisdom cultivated over the years. Her elder son, Walter, is married to his wife Ruth and has a young child with her named Travis.

She wants to be a doctor because when she was little her and her friend named Rufus where playing outside in the winter on slippery steps. They were sliding down the steps on sleds when Rufus feel and cut his face wide open. The next day Rufus came back and his face was all stitched up and from that point on Beneatha knew she wanted to help people, cure them she wanted to be a doctor. As the story extends the Youngers receive Big Walters (Beneatha's dad) insurance money of ten thousand dollars. Mama spends three thousand and five hundred dollars on a down payment for a house.

In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, she writes about dreams that were forgotten or put off. This play is essentially about dreams, as the main characters struggle to deal with the oppressive circumstances that rule their lives. Throughout the play you will realize that each character has individual dreams and pride that makes them play out a role of who they are. The Younger’s are in a situation where their prides conflict their decisions about what they what to do in life based off of their money situation. Throughout the play Mama, Walter, and Beneatha’s actions create conflict on how they want their lives to become leading them to not follow their own dreams.

     Walter dreams of owning a liquor store, and he shows this throughout the whole play. Walter feels that “don’t nothing happen for you in this world ‘less you pay somebody off!” Owning a liquor store is Walter’s American dream, as he believes that it will provide him and his family with a greater income so they will not have to live in poverty anymore. However, Hansberry shows through Mama how they have different views of the American dream when she tells Walter that the liquor store would be un-Christian like and that they should spend the money on a new house instead. Hansberry makes Mama more convincing by showing her carrying a Bible as she comes out of her room in the first scene. Mama also is seen asking God for help and talking about God throughout the play. This is shown when Walter admits that the money Mama gave him was gone because his partner took it and Mama says “Oh, God… look down here – and show me the strength.” Mama is very angry that Walter wasted all of Beneatha’s school money, but she doesn’t let her temper get the best of her and instead goes to God for support.