Research Question: The play depends on an artificial and unconvincing resolution. Asagsaiś belief in the inevitability of change based on courage and compassion remains unconvincing, as does Walterś sudden change of heart at the end of the play.
Thesis: Throughout Hansberry´s A Raisin in the Sun, the seemingly wholesome resolution relies solely on unrealistic faith in humanity, specifically shown through Asagai’s stress on marriage as Beneatha’s sole option and Walter’s drastic and nonviable change of character, while the only convincing part is the uncertainty of the family’s fate at Clybourne park.
Asagai´s stress on marriage as Beneatha’s sole option
After the entirety of the novel relying on the notion of Beneathaś character as progressive and independent, the ending leaves her with her only …show more content…
Toomey 2
“What’s the matter with you all! I didn’t make this world! It was give to me this way! Hell, yes, I want me some yachts some day! Yes I want to hang some real pearls ‘round my wife’s neck” (Hasnberry 143).
“And we have decided to move into our house because my father-my father- he earned it for us brick by brick...We don’t want your money”(Hansberry 148).
The uncertainty of the family’s fate at Clybourne park
Even after all the loose ends were loosely tied up, the Youngers fate is not entirely sealed at their new house, due to the foreshadowing of families in the same situation being attacked and Hansberry’s own experiences.
“You mean you ain’t read ’bout them colored people that was bombed out their place out there?...I bet this time next month y’all’s name will have been in the papers plenty- ‘NEGROES INVADE CLYBOURNE PARK-BOMBED” (Hansberry
Thesis: Throughout Hansberry´s A Raisin in the Sun, the seemingly wholesome resolution relies solely on unrealistic faith in humanity, specifically shown through Asagai’s stress on marriage as Beneatha’s sole option and Walter’s drastic and nonviable change of character, while the only convincing part is the uncertainty of the family’s fate at Clybourne park.
Asagai´s stress on marriage as Beneatha’s sole option
After the entirety of the novel relying on the notion of Beneathaś character as progressive and independent, the ending leaves her with her only …show more content…
Toomey 2
“What’s the matter with you all! I didn’t make this world! It was give to me this way! Hell, yes, I want me some yachts some day! Yes I want to hang some real pearls ‘round my wife’s neck” (Hasnberry 143).
“And we have decided to move into our house because my father-my father- he earned it for us brick by brick...We don’t want your money”(Hansberry 148).
The uncertainty of the family’s fate at Clybourne park
Even after all the loose ends were loosely tied up, the Youngers fate is not entirely sealed at their new house, due to the foreshadowing of families in the same situation being attacked and Hansberry’s own experiences.
“You mean you ain’t read ’bout them colored people that was bombed out their place out there?...I bet this time next month y’all’s name will have been in the papers plenty- ‘NEGROES INVADE CLYBOURNE PARK-BOMBED” (Hansberry