In the play “Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. Beneatha is introduced as an active, big-thinker, but also complex and indecisive. She is the daughter of Mama and the sister of Walter and she aspires to become a doctor and is attending college, although her path to her dream is set, she doesn’t know how to express herself so she tries different activities like playing an instrument. Throughout the play Beneatha’s personality morphs, but at the end her personality from the beginning was brought back, but a bit more different.
In the beginning of the play, Beneatha is seen as a determined individual trying to reach for her dream of being a doctor. In act I scene I. “Beneatha: Get over it? What are you talking about, Ruth? Listen, I’m …show more content…
In act I scene II Beneatha has straightened her hair and when Asagai came to visit her, he remarked that she “mutilated” her hair, and jokingly called her and assimilationist, but she denies all of the comments given to her. (I, ii). Beneatha sought to impress Asagai with her straight hair, but Asagai is a culturally rooted person, and wanted Beneatha to show her natural hair, him calling the hair a mutilation is showing that Beneatha is shedding away her own culture. This remarked made Beneatha change her hair, realizing her misguided through her ways. In act II scene I. Beneatha, now proud of her own culture, wears a robe that was given to her by Asagai, and revert back her hairstyle to a more natural look. She was invited by George Murchison to a show, Georges is another suitor of Beneatha besides Asagai. He commented on how Beneatha has changed her hair, and does not like it. She countered it by saying that she does not like assimilationist Negroes, ones who gave up on their own culture, and embraced the dominant culture. Beneatha’s change of hairstyle promptly shows which person she favors most, she listened to Asagai’s remarks while brushing off George’s insults (II, i). This shift of opinion confirms Beneatha’s complexity and indecisiveness, both comments made by the two suitors changed her
In the beginning of the play, Beneatha is seen as a determined individual trying to reach for her dream of being a doctor. In act I scene I. “Beneatha: Get over it? What are you talking about, Ruth? Listen, I’m …show more content…
In act I scene II Beneatha has straightened her hair and when Asagai came to visit her, he remarked that she “mutilated” her hair, and jokingly called her and assimilationist, but she denies all of the comments given to her. (I, ii). Beneatha sought to impress Asagai with her straight hair, but Asagai is a culturally rooted person, and wanted Beneatha to show her natural hair, him calling the hair a mutilation is showing that Beneatha is shedding away her own culture. This remarked made Beneatha change her hair, realizing her misguided through her ways. In act II scene I. Beneatha, now proud of her own culture, wears a robe that was given to her by Asagai, and revert back her hairstyle to a more natural look. She was invited by George Murchison to a show, Georges is another suitor of Beneatha besides Asagai. He commented on how Beneatha has changed her hair, and does not like it. She countered it by saying that she does not like assimilationist Negroes, ones who gave up on their own culture, and embraced the dominant culture. Beneatha’s change of hairstyle promptly shows which person she favors most, she listened to Asagai’s remarks while brushing off George’s insults (II, i). This shift of opinion confirms Beneatha’s complexity and indecisiveness, both comments made by the two suitors changed her