Generally speaking, people are ruthless, cold, unforgiving and eager to take legal action when their overglorified pile of funds is affected; although this may be true, there are still exceptions. Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, focuses on a struggling black family. Members of the family, include Walter Lee Younger, the overambitious and dreamer, his wife, Ruth Younger, who is responsible for jolting him back to reality, Travis Younger, the naive child, Beneatha Younger, the overachiever and outspoken feminist, and Lena Younger who is also regarded as Mama, the glue and head of the family. Over the course of the play, we learn that the family receives insurance money due the death of Mama’s husband, however, misfortune strikes
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In the beginning of play, Beneatha vocally expresses her doubts about God, and by declaring herself as an atheist, Mama intervenes and warns that her daughter is about to get her “fresh little jaw slapped”, and the stage directions commands that Mama “slaps her powerfully across the face” (507) With this rough, discipline technique, Mama is showcased as a large, powerful woman who is ready to deliver punishment to her misbehaving children. Lacking hesitation to deliver the blow, it can be inferred that Mama is a woman of strict rules and harsh. Her words of warning also show that she is rough. Instead of believing that a conservation will fix her daughter’s blasphemous sayings, she relies on physical force and the pain of a smack. . Later in the play, Mama makes a cruel remark to Walter, “You are a disgrace to your father’s memory” (524) By analyzing the word choice and technique of relaying the message to Walter, it reveals that Mama does not like to soothe the scathing messages she wants to deliver to her children’s faces. Because she chose the meanest way possible to inform Walter that he is not living up his father’s expectations, it reveals that she wants her remark to imprint into his heart and flood him with negative feelings and
In the beginning of play, Beneatha vocally expresses her doubts about God, and by declaring herself as an atheist, Mama intervenes and warns that her daughter is about to get her “fresh little jaw slapped”, and the stage directions commands that Mama “slaps her powerfully across the face” (507) With this rough, discipline technique, Mama is showcased as a large, powerful woman who is ready to deliver punishment to her misbehaving children. Lacking hesitation to deliver the blow, it can be inferred that Mama is a woman of strict rules and harsh. Her words of warning also show that she is rough. Instead of believing that a conservation will fix her daughter’s blasphemous sayings, she relies on physical force and the pain of a smack. . Later in the play, Mama makes a cruel remark to Walter, “You are a disgrace to your father’s memory” (524) By analyzing the word choice and technique of relaying the message to Walter, it reveals that Mama does not like to soothe the scathing messages she wants to deliver to her children’s faces. Because she chose the meanest way possible to inform Walter that he is not living up his father’s expectations, it reveals that she wants her remark to imprint into his heart and flood him with negative feelings and