A Raisin In The Sun Beneatha Character

In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” I most relate to Beneatha. In the play, Beneatha is only twenty years old. When I was twenty, my attitude was similar to Beneatha’s. Out of everyone Beneatha appears to be the most educated. She appears to be a smart person, but at the same time she appears to be obnoxious and egocentric. When I was twenty, I was a very self-centered person. I felt that the world revolved around me. I didn’t think or care about my family’s hardships as I was busy doing my own things. Beneatha is clearly a selfish person in this play as she takes guitar lessons, joins play-acting group, horseback-riding club, while her family is suffering from poverty and trying to make the ends meet. In reality, I don’t come from …show more content…
They do not make much, yet their workload is so heavy, which has caused my mom to have back problems. My parent’s job is not a luxurious job as it requires them to clean and handle human excrement. Being young and senseless, I did not care what my parents did or how hard they worked; all I cared about was my demands and requests to be fulfilled on time. Like Beneatha, my mind was not set on one goal. I kept doing various things and wasted so much of my parent’s money that could have been spent on important things. For instance, I was never sure if I wanted to finish my LVN to BSN program online, but I still insisted my parents to pay for the online BSN program. My parents never questioned my decisions and paid five thousand dollars for the program. I received all the material to study, but not once I opened it to study. Sadly, I dropped out of the program and never told my parents that I wasted their five thousand dollars. Up to this day, this incident hurts me badly while that hard earned money could have been used on something important such as paying the home mortgage. Now being a responsible adult, I understand the meaning of the hard earned