"A Raisin in the Sun" In "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry shows that having dreams is essential to the lives of the characters in the play. In particular, the main character Walter Younger has idealistic dreams of better lives for himself and his family. When Walter is introduced in t...
"A Raisin In the sun." Set in the mid 1950's "A Raisin in the sun" is a testament of a black family struggling to cope with racism and poverty in Harlem. The play centers on the coming of a life insurance check and the problems and complications that arise around and because of it. Though out t...
With the success in 1959 of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry became the first black woman to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play. ... The characters in Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun are Universal in their Attempts to achieve their dreams. ...
In the play, "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry, the protagonist Walter Lee Younger goes through a dramatic change in character from the start to the end. Walter is a middle aged man who wants to make more of his life than be a chauffeur by investing a lot of money to buy a liquor store wi...
"What happens to a dream deferred?," (1) Langston Hughes asked in his 1959 Poem "Harlem: A Dream Deferred." In Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun," she expr In her play, Hansberry described the dreams of the Younger family and how those dreams became "dreams deferred." The famil...
Theme: "Dreams" - This play can be summarized by its theme of dreams. Everything and every action were done by the motivation of a better or dream. Everyone in the family, old or young, had their own "dream." The mother wanted a house for the family, the son wanted the insurance money to start his own store, and the girl wanted to attend college. As the matriarch, Mama Younger made the decision and placed a down payment on a nice house for the family in a total-white neighborhood. ...
