The play, while limited to where it could show the Youngers’ experiencing this hardship, manages to show these rich characters make it through trying times to an astounding reception. While the movie adds new locations and fleshes out the setting, it does so at the expense of several important elements of the characters Hansberry so carefully crafted. Neither perspective is better than the other, but both combined provide a better overall understanding of the lives the Youngers had to live, and as a result, audiences see more clearly into the terrible past African-Americans have experienced. As providing a public eye on discrimination was Hansberry’s intent with the play, this creative difference should be something she would have greatly
The play, while limited to where it could show the Youngers’ experiencing this hardship, manages to show these rich characters make it through trying times to an astounding reception. While the movie adds new locations and fleshes out the setting, it does so at the expense of several important elements of the characters Hansberry so carefully crafted. Neither perspective is better than the other, but both combined provide a better overall understanding of the lives the Youngers had to live, and as a result, audiences see more clearly into the terrible past African-Americans have experienced. As providing a public eye on discrimination was Hansberry’s intent with the play, this creative difference should be something she would have greatly