The Hidden Issues in A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun is a classic domestic tragedy written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. The play lets the audience and or readers see what life is really like in the Younger household, who is an african american family who lives on the South Side of Chicago. The younger family is living in a small two bedroom apartment which seems to over flowing with the amount of people that are residing in the apartment. At the beginning of the play the family is waiting for an insurance check from Mama Younger’s (Lena) husband’s death, to come into the mail. The Younger family has dreams of what they would do with the $10,000. Beneatha, Lena’s daughter, wants to use the money to pay her way through medical school
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But Mama has a different dream with that she wants to buy a house for the whole family to live in. Due to the family being confined into a two bedroom apartment the tension in the household continue to rise. When Walter finds out that his wife, Ruth, is pregnant with their second child the tension in house and the desire to have a better life increases even more. They finally receive the insurance check in the mail and Mama makes a downpayment on a home in a predominately white neighborhood. After making the payment she decides to give Walter the rest of the insurance money if he promises to set aside some of the money to let Beneatha finish medical school. Instead of following his mother’s wishes he invest the rest of the money into the liquor store. Which one of the partners he invested with, ended up running off with all of the money; which left Walter broke, and Beneatha without money to pay for school. Even with having no money, the family decided to make the move into the predominately white neighborhood, even when Mr Lindner, a white man from the neighborhood, bribes Walter with money that could buy them a house in a different neighborhood. But, Walter can not go through with the bribe with Mr Lindner
But Mama has a different dream with that she wants to buy a house for the whole family to live in. Due to the family being confined into a two bedroom apartment the tension in the household continue to rise. When Walter finds out that his wife, Ruth, is pregnant with their second child the tension in house and the desire to have a better life increases even more. They finally receive the insurance check in the mail and Mama makes a downpayment on a home in a predominately white neighborhood. After making the payment she decides to give Walter the rest of the insurance money if he promises to set aside some of the money to let Beneatha finish medical school. Instead of following his mother’s wishes he invest the rest of the money into the liquor store. Which one of the partners he invested with, ended up running off with all of the money; which left Walter broke, and Beneatha without money to pay for school. Even with having no money, the family decided to make the move into the predominately white neighborhood, even when Mr Lindner, a white man from the neighborhood, bribes Walter with money that could buy them a house in a different neighborhood. But, Walter can not go through with the bribe with Mr Lindner