A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a drama about the conflicts of one African American family in the inner city of southern Chicago during the 1950s. The Youngers, a family of five, live in a small run-down apartment and face the conflicts that not only go with living with extended family, but those that go with living with racism in the slums of the inner city. Lena, also known as Mama, is the wise single mother and Grandmother in the family who dedicates her life to her children and works hard at instilling her Christian values in them. Walter Jr. and Beneatha are her grown children. Ruth is Walter’s wife, and Travis is their young son, who is Mama’s grandson. On a positive note for the Youngers, when the father, Walter Sr., dies he leaves behind $10,000 in insurance money for his wife, Lena. How the insurance money will be spent produces the conflict in the drama. Over the course of the play Beneatha and Mama, Mama and Walter, Walter and Beneatha,
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Walter isn’t mature enough to realize how to properly do this. One example is when Ruth says she getting an abortion, and Walter doesn't say anything. Mama, fed up, says, “Your wife say she going to destroy your child. And I’m waiting to hear you talk like him[Walter Sr.] and say we a people who give children life, not who destroys them”(I.ii.83). Mama can’t trust Walter because he’s making bad choices. Mama and Walter work out their conflicts and come together when Walter has lost all the rest of his father’s money and he is devastated and embarrassed. He realizes that without his family, he has nothing. It’s at this point Walter stands up to the white man who wants to buy the house back from them, because the whites do not want blacks in their neighborhood, that Mama starts to trust in her son. “He finally come into his manhood today, didn’t he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain…” (III.ii.3), exclaims
Walter isn’t mature enough to realize how to properly do this. One example is when Ruth says she getting an abortion, and Walter doesn't say anything. Mama, fed up, says, “Your wife say she going to destroy your child. And I’m waiting to hear you talk like him[Walter Sr.] and say we a people who give children life, not who destroys them”(I.ii.83). Mama can’t trust Walter because he’s making bad choices. Mama and Walter work out their conflicts and come together when Walter has lost all the rest of his father’s money and he is devastated and embarrassed. He realizes that without his family, he has nothing. It’s at this point Walter stands up to the white man who wants to buy the house back from them, because the whites do not want blacks in their neighborhood, that Mama starts to trust in her son. “He finally come into his manhood today, didn’t he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain…” (III.ii.3), exclaims