Lorraine Hansberry Character Analysis

Lorraine Hansberry was the author of a play called A Raisin in the Sun. The setting of this play was in Chicago, which is where Hansberry was born. The time era also had a lot to do with Hansberries personal life. She was born in 1930, which is around the same time as the play was taken place. Loraine Hansberry was a black women, in the play the main characters are black and a lot of the characters motives are surrounded by the fact that they are black. For a lot of Hansberries childhood, she and her family struggled with racists. The family in the play are faced with obstacles because of their race. Lorraine broke some traditions in her family, like going to an all black college. She did not feel that going to a college like that was the best …show more content…
An example in the play is when Walter delivers Mr. Lindner the message telling him that he accepts the buyout, even though his family strongly disagrees with his choice. He feels that it is the right decision. Wether it will be an easy process or not, he feels that it is the right thing to do. He was standing his ground for what he believes is right. His decision ended up helping everyone, Walter finally got his life in control. He was no longer greedy for money. I feel that her decision reflected on some of Walters actions, showing that we all need to be independent when it is time to take a big step in life. Overall I feel that she really connected with the characters in this play and was able to express them so well because she knew how most african american people felt about their race. How some felt powerless and disowned. She wanted to show that stereotypes do not make up who people are, they make up what people want to see. Its just an image. When I was comparing her personal life to the play it was easy to see where she would get the idea from. Learning about Hansberry really showed the tough life she had being an african american and having to deal with the