A Raisin In The Sun
...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 of them want to
benefit the family, each one has a different idea of what to do with the
money and how to manage it to benefit everyone.
Walter Lee, like his father want's his family to have a better life
and want's to invest the money in a liquor store. Walter want's the money
so that he can prove that he is capable of making a future for his family.
By doing well in business Walter thinks that he can buy his family
happiness. Walter has dreams. Dreams he most likely got from his father.
Dreams 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...
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