Life in 1950's America wasn't like Leave it to Beaver for everybody, author of the play “Raisin in the Sun” Hansberry takes you into a cramped little apartment to show you that big dreams can live in even the smallest most oppressed places. Hansberry, shows the struggles and dreams of a black family and each member and where they are coming from and why it wasn’t always possible for those dreams to be fulfilled in pre-civil rights America. Hansberry shows that one family can have many different aspirations and that this can breed conflict. Maybe the best thing Hansberry teaches in “Raisin in the Sun” is that while the main characters as a family weren’t perfect and their socio and economic conditions weren’t strained and were built to work
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Each character holds on to a specific even conflicting dreams. That have been “deferred” by their socioeconomic limitations. The main characters in the Youngers family have been through the death of their Matriarch Big Walter, they receive ten thousand dollars from insurance and each of them have a different proposition on how they should spend it, and each way shows the dream of each family member. Mama’s dream is owning a home, her son Walter dreams of owning a liquor store, his sister Beneatha wants to become a doctor.
Price, Lindsey. "Issue 58A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Analysis and Activities." A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Analysis and Activities:: Spotlight: E-News from Theatrefolk. 11 Mar. 2011. Web. 10 Dec. …show more content…
Each character in the story feels at odds with the world and in reality it is the world that is at odds with them. At the time, the social nor economic climate was not in Black Americans favor. That is truly the essence of what this play is about, Hansberry takes us into the lives of a black family living in a little cramped apartment in 1950’s to make a point that big dreams can live in small places. However, in pre civil rights America, fulfilling those dreams wasn’t always
Each character holds on to a specific even conflicting dreams. That have been “deferred” by their socioeconomic limitations. The main characters in the Youngers family have been through the death of their Matriarch Big Walter, they receive ten thousand dollars from insurance and each of them have a different proposition on how they should spend it, and each way shows the dream of each family member. Mama’s dream is owning a home, her son Walter dreams of owning a liquor store, his sister Beneatha wants to become a doctor.
Price, Lindsey. "Issue 58A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Analysis and Activities." A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Analysis and Activities:: Spotlight: E-News from Theatrefolk. 11 Mar. 2011. Web. 10 Dec. …show more content…
Each character in the story feels at odds with the world and in reality it is the world that is at odds with them. At the time, the social nor economic climate was not in Black Americans favor. That is truly the essence of what this play is about, Hansberry takes us into the lives of a black family living in a little cramped apartment in 1950’s to make a point that big dreams can live in small places. However, in pre civil rights America, fulfilling those dreams wasn’t always