A Raisin In The Sun Character Analysis

A Lock on the Mind “A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to health of the community. A good job is a means to provide health and welfare for your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.” - James H. Douglas Jr. In Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Crash by Paul Haggis jobs and living situation play an important role in how the characters live. In Tortilla Curtain, Crash and A Raisin in the Sun living situation is something that is defined by jobs, but everyone is always wanting more than what they have. If they have a good living situation, they want more security, if they have a broken-down, old house they want a better one, if they have no house they want anywhere to live. The better the living situation of a group of people is, they want more security and better housing, if a group of people has less, they just want a place that they can call their own. The living situation of families in these texts is one of the greatest sources of anxiety, no matter if …show more content…
Their family is experiencing growing pains with Travis already sleeping in the living room and Ruth expecting another child. In this home they do not seemed worried about security, but this house is getting too small and they want to move. The Younger’s are not wealthy by any means, but they are getting a welfare check for Lena’s recently passed husband and would like to use this to buy a new house, but the problem is that the only house the can afford is in an all-white neighborhood. This situation does not seem to scare them, but rather the whites living in the neighborhood do feel threatened by the idea of a black family moving in. They send a spokesman to the community, Mr.Linder, to the Younger’s home, begging them not to