Throughout the play, Mama tussles to connect with her children and has mixed feelings for the both of them, Beneatha and Walter. Aside from that moment of violence, Mama is a kind and patient woman who is also very nurturing which can be seen from her…
1. What is the larger significance of the bargain that Walter Lee makes in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry? The major difference in Hansberry’s version of the Faustian bargain is that Walter Lee resists the “satanic temptation”, while in other forms, Walter Lee gives into the temptation. Foster states that “Previous Versions have been either tragic or comic depending on whether the devil successfully collects the soul at the end of the work”, but this is not the case for Hansberry’s version.…
Mama wants to use the $10,000 insurance check to buy a house in a better neighborhood where Travis can have a backyard to play in. Their two-bedroom home doesn’t have enough space, especially since Travis sleeps on the couch. Ruth is expecting a baby, but doesn’t want to have it because she always thinks about the situation they are in: no income with a limited amount of space. Ruth’s contemplating decision gives Mama more reason to want the new house. We see that Mama is truly head of the household when Beneatha uses the Lord’s name in vain, and Mama replies, “Not that will do.…
Both Trifles and A Raisin in the Sun convey a message on how life’s hardships can influence one’s path. Both of these plays act on the premise that life has many forks in the road but it is the how people react to those hardships that control one’s route. These two plays, however, have opposite theme’s regarding the daily struggles people face. Although both the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun and Mrs. Wright in Trifles endure great hardship, the Youngers illustrate how family sustains a person, while Mrs. Wright illustrates how isolation destroys a person.…
Each work makes a point to say that sometimes, dreams are all one has. Though it may be an unfortunate reality, both Steinbeck and Hansberry make it an important part of the characters’…
All of the characters in A Raisin in the Sun face many challenges throughout the play. The dreams of the characters are torn down by each other and the outsiders in the book. The hopes and dreams the characters have are brought down by both the prejudices seen in the play and also the dreams of the other characters. The dreams of others in the book can often tear down another character’s dreams. Education, gender discrimination, and housing was greatly affected by growing up and living in the Southside of Chicago in the 1950’s and impacts the dreams of Beneatha, Ruth, and Mama in Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun.…
MAMA A new place was needed anyhow, but now that we got my husband’s money with us… (Her voice quivers as she starts to tear up) He worked hard for us. We can live in a new home because of him. (RUTH and BENEATHA hug her)…
Mama – Mama – I want so many things…” (1.2). Because the Youngers are so poor, Walter has always felt restricted when it came to his aspires, but the insurance would have changed that.” …I trusted you… Man, I put my life in your hands…”(2.3). Once Walter discovered that Willy ran off with the money, his world started to fall apart.…
With three incomes, Mama, Walter and Ruth combined cannot afford to get a better house in a nice neighborhood. Beneatha is introduced to her first conflict as her and Walter Lee go back and forth starting with Walter Lee’s criticism on wanting to become a doctor. Walter Lee goes on to say, “Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor. If you so crazy ‘bout messing ‘round with sick people- then go be a nurse…
Occurrence of Different Dreams and Ultimate Lessons How was look like when the Lorraine Hansberry 's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is written? At that time, from the abolition of black slavery, African Americans could have freedom differently from the past. However, the liberty existed on the only surface. As the reader can find in the play, there were many cases that the African American families that are not different from other normal white families have pain in racial prejudice and discrimination. Even if they had same right on the surface of society, they still had invisible wall that separates their social position and status.…
In a discussion about the fate of the check, Walter explains to Beneatha, “—but if Mama got that money she can always take a few thousand and help you through school too…” (Hansberry 835). He goes as far as convincing his sister that she should use the money for herself to make his plan with it sound reasonable. Walter does not care about whether or not she or anybody else gets to use it. He only tries to make her understand his side of the story by appealing to her situation.…
When it comes to the American Dream, people think of doing something to make themselves affluent. In 1959, African Americans had to face racism due to their color and culture. Therefore, it was difficult for African Americans to accomplish the American Dream. Walter Lee Younger from the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, goes through different stages. He dreams of owning a liquor store to make money.…
Mama is the mother of Walter and Beneatha, and acts as our racial stereotype of the mammy. She is the caregiver of the family and suits that role, but how Mama strays away from the mammy role is with her double consciousness. Hansberry writes Mamas stage directions to portray her double consciousness, “Still ignoring him and leaning on the table and changing to more comfortable shoes.” This illustrates her double consciousness because she has just come home from buying a house in a white neighborhood, dressed up to fit in to avoid the racism and show them that she can be like them even though she is black, but once she gets home she transitions into herself again (1542). Although Mama is the caregiver, she is independent and does what she thinks is going to best suit her future generations.…
At the beginning for the play Walter’s father passes away recently. His mother is waiting for a life insurance check for $10,000. But Walter thinks he had a sense of entitlement to the money, But Walter’s Mother has religious objects of alcohol and Beneatha has to remind him it is his mothers call how she wishes to spend that money. Eventually Mama Puts some of the money down on a brand new house for the…
Lorraine Hansberry, African American playwright and writer, was the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Lorraine Hansberry completed her first play in 1957, which opened in March of 1959, taking her title from Langston Hughes ' poem, "Harlem” and that play was A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry was a great playwright that lived a short life. Hansberry died at the age of 34 but her work lived on.…