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A Raisin in the Sun
In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family lives in a rundown tenement home on the South Side of Chicago. But Mama puts life into this apartment with a plant, and young...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun depicts a Chicago family trying to pull themselves out of poverty amid racism and the predatory practices of dishonest people. Ruth Younger, the matriarch...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Even though the father/ son relationship is much more evident in Wilson's work than in Hansberry's, the role of parenting is one that gives insight into the thematic development of each work....
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A Raisin in the Sun
As in any play, determining what a character should wear is dependent upon two main criteria: the time period of the play and the qualities of the character. Raisin in the Sun is set in post-WWII...
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A Raisin in the Sun
At the beginning of act two, scene one, Walter enters the apartment drunk while Beneatha is wearing the traditional African garments given to her by Joseph Asagai. As Beneatha performs and dances...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The young female character Beneatha in the Raisin In the Sun play wants to become a doctor as the doctoral profession is seen as the highest intellectual and social attainment in the United States...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Ruth Younger is a thirty-year-old housewife with a monotonous daily routine. Despite a strained relationship with Walter at the beginning of the play, Ruth works hard to keep her family together....
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A Raisin in the Sun
The liquor store is Walter's big plan to escape poverty, and, as such, quotes about it reveal the desperation and family arguments that poverty can create. We first hear about the plan for the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Both characters in these works a tragic in the sense that they both face great difficulties in their lives. Hamlet, for example, has to cope with the death of her father and the discovery that it...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Ruth and Walter’s marriage in A Raisin in the Sun is very strained for many reasons. One reason their marriage seems to be in trouble is that Ruth and Walter live in a tiny apartment with Walter’s...
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A Raisin in the Sun
At the end of the play, after Walter has stood up as a "man," the family packs up the apartment and moves. In the very last scene, Mama takes a look around the apartment, grabs her symbolic plant...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Mrs. Johnson is the Younger family's nosy neighbor, who visits their apartment to gather more information about their upcoming move and to offer her opinion on their decision to purchase a house in...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Walter has lost the dream of the liquor store, but in the process he has grown up and gained his "manhood". Mama has lost her place as head of the family but has seen her son grow up. Beneatha has...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Race plays an important role in Hansberry's play. Coupled with class issues, race functions as a delineating cultural force and an important element in the construction of the Youngers' identity...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Walter and Beneatha have a strained relationship. They quarrel constantly. Walter is upset that his mother wants to give Beneatha college money to become a doctor. He thinks Beneatha is dreaming...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Whenever we think about questions such as the audience or purpose of a work of literature, often we need to infer the answer from the themes within the play. This play was not written for a...
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A Raisin in the Sun
There are at least three different film versions that I know of, so I'm not sure if you have a specific one in mind. For the most recent version, in which Sean Combs plays Walter, here are a few...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, Walter Lee Younger Jr. grows into a more mature person during the course of the play. Walter Jr. lived in his father’s shadow while the older man was alive. With his...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The two men are exact opposites from one another. Joseph Asagai is from Nigeria and encourages Beneatha to be proud of her African heritage, such as letting her hair grow naturally rather than...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s play takes place in a specific historic period so the costumes and other design elements should fit with the period. The playwright offers little description of the clothes,...
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A Raisin in the Sun
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The title alludes to Langston Hughes’ poem “A Dream Deferred.” What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lena, Ruth, and Beneatha are all portrayed as strong, determined African American women living in a cramped apartment in the South Side of Chicago. All three characters are outspoken individuals...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Shortly after George Murchison enters the Younger family’s apartment, he gets into a heated argument with Beneatha over their African heritage. Unlike Beneatha, George does not respect or revere...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In literature, there is a fine line between saying a character is a "symbol" and recognizing that authors always use characters to express ideas and represent concepts that are part of a work's...
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A Raisin in the Sun
One of the features that makes Walter Younger a dynamic, round character is that he is constantly plagued by doubts about the correct path to take. Throughout the course of the play, Lorraine...
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A Raisin in the Sun
"A Raisin in the Sun" is a 1959 award-winning play by Lorraine Hansberry, notable for being the first play by an African-American woman to appear on Broadway. In the play, the Younger family is...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The four main characters of this excellent play are Mama, Walter, Ruth and Beneatha. Each of them have a different dream for their lives, and in some cases it is clear that they have more than one...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lena Younger is a genuine, selfless woman who wants what is best for her family. Lena Younger is also extremely humble and could never imagine possessing ten thousand dollars. She dreams of using...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Hansberry challenges the stereotype that is associated with her subject matter in a couple of ways. The first way is that she shows the Younger family as challenged by the issues of class and...
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A Raisin in the Sun
I think that you can make the analysis that Walter's dream is supplanted by a new vision that is realized at the end of the play. Walter's original dream to open up a liquor store with the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In act two, scene two, Walter Jr. remains depressed and intoxicated after learning that his dreams will never come to fruition. After Lena bought the home in Clybourne Park, Walter realized that...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The play A Raisin in the Sun is still relevant. There are still people who have dreams that are yet to come true. As long as their are people who dream, there will be relevance in a play like A...
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A Raisin in the Sun
At the end of the play, Mr. Lindner visits the Younger family's apartment, prepared to make a deal in order to buy Lena's home back. Initially, Walter Jr. plans on selling the home back to the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The character who changes the most is Walter Younger, Jr. One of the most important things about Walter’s transformation is that he is an adult whose views seem to have been set and, throughout...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The earlier film version of A Raisin in the Sun (1961) was made at a time when Hollywood had only recently begun to allow realistic portrayals of African American characters, moving away from the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The most obvious conflict is that of racism and prejudice. The Youngers are a black family moving into a white neighborhood. The neighbors try to pay them to move away and then resort to...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Beneatha seems to be looking for a man who can give her a sense of security and self-worth. Both of these qualities have been notable in their absence from Beneatha's life since her brother Walter...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The primary theme of Langston Hughes's celebrated poem "Harlem" concerns the nature of deferred dreams regarding the plight of African Americans. The title of Hansberry's classic play is taken from...
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A Raisin in the Sun
I think one thing that you need to consider is the specificity of your question. When you say "The Bible", do you specifically mean the religious text, or do you generally mean the Christian...
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A Raisin in the Sun
During breakfast, Travis asks his mother for fifty cents and tells her that his teacher requires them to bring in money today. Ruth understands that her family cannot afford to waste fifty cents...
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A Raisin in the Sun
To begin, A Raisin in the Sun is a play by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry from 1959. It was inspired by a poem by Langston Hughes, an American poet who often wrote, as Hansberry did, about...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Money plays an essential role in the play, A Raisin in the Sun. It is Hansberry's progressive and advanced attitude about American discrimination that she does a very skilled job of articulating...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Mr. Lindner has come to pay a visit to Walter and his family to tell them that he wants to buy their newly-acquired property in order to stop them moving into their new neighborhood. Lindner...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lena Younger's first time meeting Beneatha's friend and love interest, Joseph Asagai, is ironic. Before meeting Joseph Asagai, Lena struggles to pronounce his name and mistakes Nigeria, where...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In A Raisin in the Sun, Mama's husband Mr. Younger was a proud man. He worked hard and he too had dreams of bettering himself. He and Mama dreamed of owning their own house. Mama and her husband...
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A Raisin in the Sun
It's always been Beneatha's dream to go to medical school and become a doctor. Unfortunately, her dreams of educational and professional achievement are shattered when her brother Walter loses...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Joseph Asagai is a passionate African student who courts Beneatha and attempts to motivate her to connect with her African roots. Asagai is portrayed as a charming, intelligent man who has a...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The absence of light in the cramped and dingy apartment where the Youngers live signify's a dreary future. This becomes especially clear when the darkness of the current apartment is juxtaposed to...
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A Raisin in the Sun
To begin to write an essay, a scholar must first choose their topic and identify a thesis statement. In this case, the essay prompts us to consider the "most important" symbol in A Raisin in the...
