An Analysis of A Raisin In the Sun :: Raisin Sun essays

An Analysis of A Raisin In the Sun           A Raisin In The Sun is a figure out written by an African-American playwright - Lorraine Hansberry. It was first produced in 1959. Lorraine Hansberrys take in is about a black family in the Chicagos South-Side after the Second instauration War. The family consisted of Mama(Lena Younger), Walter Lee(her son), Ruth (his wife), Travis (their son), and Beneatha (Walters younger sister). The Younger family lived in poor conditions, and cant afford to adjudge  go living standards. However, Lena is waiting to receive a $10,000 check from her late-husbands restitution capital. The two main characters in the play, Mama and Walter, want this bills to be used for the bring ins of the whole family. Even though both of them want to benefit the family, each one has a different idea of what to do with the money and how to manage it to benefit everyone.         Walter Lee, like his f ather wants his family to have a better sustenance and wants to invest the money in a liquor store. Walter wants the money so that he can prove that he is capable of making a future for his family. By doing well in business Walter thinks that he can buy his family happiness. Walter has dreams. Dreams he most likely got from his father. Dreams of better life for his family and himself. A dream of financial security and comfortable living. Ruth, on the different hand is stable and down to earth. She doesnt make rash choices to accommodate a dream. She will just make do with what she has. Mama is a kind person, she is wise but lives in the past. She is happy to have her family with and be unhazardous from society. She thinks that money is not something that makes a family happy.         Besides dreams Walter alike has a husbands responsibilities which be universally thought of as being able to support his family and push on his children so they are m orally in line with what he believes in. Walters problem, however, seems to be that he is building his supposedly well thought out externalise of investing money in a liquor store into something he is infactuated with. By creating this infactuation, he is not able to achieve his responsibilities. Besides having responsibilities Walter also has his