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 play scripted by an African-American playwright - Lorraine Hansberry. It was first produced in 1959. Lorraine Hansberrys work is about a black family in the Chicagos South-Side after the Second World War. The family consisted of Mama(Lena Younger), Walter Lee(her son), Ruth (his wife), Travis (their son), and Beneatha (Walters jr. sister). The Younger family lived in poor conditions, and cant afford to have  better living standards. However, Lena is waiting to receive a $10,000 check from her late-husbands insurance money. The two main characters in the play, Mama and Walter, want this money to be used for the benefits of the whole family. Even though both of them want to benefit the family, each one has a antithetical idea of what to do with the money and how to manage it to benefit everyone.         Walter Lee, like his father wants his family to h ave a better life and wants to invest the money in a liquor store. Walter wants the money so that he can prove that he is cap adapted of making a future for his family. By doing well in agate line 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 other(a) 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 loving person, she is sensible but lives in the past. She is happy to have her family with and be safe from society. She thinks that money is not something that makes a family happy.         Besides dreams Walter also has a husbands responsibilities which are universally panorama of as being able to support his family and raise his children so they are morally in line with what he believ es in. Walters problem, however, seems to be that he is building his supposedly well thought out plan 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