The House On Chicago Street Analysis

The author creates a story where she gives the readers a realistic view of the struggle Afro- American families had to go through. As the family waits for a $10,000 check, each family member has an idea of what they want to accomplish with the money. Mama, the matriarch of the family dreams of acquiring a house in a white neighborhood, her son, Walter wants to open up a liquor store, and become a business man. Beneatha, Mama’s daughter wished to spend the money on medical school, but most importantly, she desired that her family would give up the idea of joining the white world. Furthermore, in the story each member struggles with racism as shown when Walter tells Mama, “Sometimes when I’m downtown and I pass them cool-quiet-looking restaurants where them white boys are sitting back and …show more content…
In fact, we continue to see how difficult it was for color skin people as Mama tells her family that the houses in the neighborhood were twice as much for Afro-Americans. The author provides an example of prejudice through the pursuit of housing in Chicago. Discriminatory laws made departing the slums, much more challenging for blacks. The author explains that the families poor living settings are not just due to an economic discrepancy, but are honestly the outcome of Chicago’s defined racially limiting housing conventions. “A Raisin in the Sun captures the black family who through their endeavors tries to achieve the American dream of upward social mobility achieved through hard work. ‟ (Nyauma, 1). Yet, as the family struggles and Mama acquires a small house in a white neighborhood the family is greeted to a hostile committee. A man named Linder comes to greet the family and with an aggressive tone tells them they are going to be treated different. He goes as far as trying to sway the Youngers that segregation is in their best interest, that it is for the greater good of