Hansberry demonstrates how women's ideas about their identity have changed over time and how that would change American life in the 1960s. The women in the novel are portrayed as strong and independent individuals at the time when women expected to be submissive to their men. Characters such as the young woman, Benatha, in the novel took a different attitude towards changing gender roles. Her perspectives elucidate her identity as a well-educated black woman. She holds believe in reaching her goal to become a doctor. This change reveals a certain in which opportunity for women’s particular branch of study or entering the field of medicine earlier dominated by men.
