A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry | Summary & Analysis

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Summary Analysis 0:08 Characters 3:39 Walter 3:46 Mama 4:32 Benetha 5:24 Ruth 6:01 Travis 6:45 Symbols 7:09 Money/The Check 7:16 Sunlight and Mama's Plant 8:02 Beneatha's Hair 8:49 Music 9:17 The House in Clybourne Park 10:12 Themes 10:38 Race Relations/Segregation 10:47 Universalism & Particularism 11:59 Gender Roles 12:41 Africa & America 13:27

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The climax is incorrect…you can not have the climax of the story in act 2…completely wrong, the crisis happens at the end of act 2 when bobo tells Walter that Willy stole all the money…the climax always comes after the crisis…..the climax is when Walter tells mr. Linder they are moving into the house.

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Everyone seems to have the same thoughts about Raisin In the Sun which are that-- +the story was essentially about a close knit, black family trying to move into a white neighborhood. +this was a matriarchal family headed by a single mother who was all wise and pretty much correct in everything she did. +Walter Lee was money hungry, materialistic and selfish. He seems to draw the least sympathy of all of the characters. +aside from Walter losing most of the money, all of the family's problems were due to racism. +Ruth was saintly in enduring Walter Lee's compulsiveness. +Beneatha's character was flawless because she aspired to become a medical doctor. So, here are some questions about issues I don't think I've have ever heard discussed regarding Raisin in the Sun: 1 Why did family members talk so harshly with each other even in the morning? Is this how they started each day? 2 Why didn't we see the Younger family eat meals together even when everyone was in the house? They seemed not have any family bonding rituals. 3 Was Ruth's morning grumpiness due to her secret about her pregnancy? It had to be because she was not a single mom with several children but a married woman with one child who was not a toddler or infant. Yet, all she could manage to cook for breakfast was scrambled eggs. 4 Why was Walter the only person talking about the insurance money? They all knew about it for six months, but the other adults all seemed uncomfortable as if even talking about money was sinful. As the play opens, we learn that they are sharing a bathroom down the hall with neighbors. So why wasn't anyone talking or even thinking about using the money to move into a larger place with its own bathroom(s)? Such residences did exist in black neighborhoods in Chicago in the1950s. 5 Why was mama so domineering with her grown children as if she had been an overcompensating single mother? She had not been a single mother but a wife with a husband/father with whom she shared the economic and children rearing load. All of the family spoke of him in the highest reverence. So clearly, he fulfilled his role as husband/father. Both parents raised Walter and Beneatha to adulthood. So why is mama so heavy handed with her 35-year-old son and 20+ year old daughter? 6 Why did mama single-handedly buy the house even though the family comprised three other adults? 7 Why did mama with her Clyborne Park housing choice thrust the entire family into a racial dilemma without any prior family consent and preparation? Is this the way that any family buys their first house let alone buy it as the first blacks in a white neighborhood. How could mama conclude from a half day house search on the bus that all nice houses in black areas were over-priced? Why would she think she could find a bargain in an area where she and her family would be unwanted? 8 Did mama consider that this move might cause her grandson to be transferred to a racially hostile school in Clyborne Park? 9 Why did momma house hunt around the city on the bus with $10,000 cash in her purse? Why did she have $6,500 cash in her purse when she went to a bar at night looking for Walter? Why didn't she keep the money in a bank account? 10 Why didn't we ever see momma pray for wisdom and guidance regarding the money or the family's general well-being. Why did we only see her mention God when she slapped her daughter for questioning God's utility in daily human life-again treating her grown daughter like a child? 11 Why would the insurance money all belong to mama? If it was a survivors' benefit that the father originated when Walter and Beneatha were still children, it seems that he intended it to be for them all and not just for mama. 12 When she learned that her sister-in-law, Ruth, was pregnant, why was aspiring medical doctor Beneatha's first reaction, "where is it going to sleep? Is this the appropriate sensitivity of an aspiring Ob/Gyn, pediatrician or family doctor? 13 What is Beneatha's income source that enables her to pay for exotic elective classes and expensive camera equipment collecting dust in a closet while her nephew sleeps on the living room couch and is overdue for new shoes? As an aspiring health care professional hoping to help meet needs in the larger community, why is she oblivious to needs in her own house? 14 If Walter was so ashamed of and humiliated by his job as a chauffeur why didn't he pursue something else? Chicago industry was bustling in the 1950s with better paying jobs for blacks in many areas, even though blacks faced intense job and trade union discrimination. By the 1950s, blacks from the south had been migrating to Chicago for decades and landing jobs in the steel mills, the stock yards, various large factories, and in construction and transportation as well as in government such as the post office. 15 When Walter prioritizes his desire for better economic opportunity in Chicago in the 1950s why does mama respond by prioritizing safety from lynching as if they were living in the deep south back in the 1920s? Mama and Walter Sr had moved north to Chicago before Walter Jr and Beneatha were born. So why does mama still carry this hold over fear about lynching? Emmett Till was lynched not in Chicago, but when he paid visit down south from Chicago. 15 How in the world could Walter be conned into handing over $6,500 to Willie Harris? Why would he think all that money would be needed just to smooth the way for liquor licensing? What money would be left to acquire the space and inventory to open the liquor store? Why didn't he insist on going with Willie and Bobo to Springfield? Why would Bobo have handed over his money to Willie if he was going to later meet Willie at the station for the trip to Springfield? Why didn't Walter bring Willie Harris by the house to meet his family? They quickly would have sized up Willie Harris as shady--a middle aged man with no family and thus no community ties. Thus, he could skip town with the money. Instead, Walter tries to show mama a piece of paper as if that alone would be sufficient to convince her to hand him several thousand dollars. Walter seemed a bit too anxious to impress Willie Harris if he were a fatherless male desperate for fatherly mentorship. But Walter did not grow up fatherless, so his gullibility is puzzling. Walter only spoke of the money being made of his father's flesh after it was lost. Perhaps if he had affirmed these words when he had the money, he would not have become susceptible to being impressed by and thus entrusting the money to Willie Harris. 16 Why does Walter draw the least sympathy of all family members? Why do viewers of the play universally see him as money hungry, materialistic and selfish for wanting to be an entrepreneur and get ahead economically? When did Walter ever speak about using money for selfish indulgences? He spoke about wanting to be able adorn his wife with pearls and lamented about his son sleeping on the living room couch and being overdue for new shoes. 17 Near the end when mama expresses deep compassion for her son for how the world has "whipped him so", did she recognize that his family had first whipped him with their sharp dismissals and mocking of him and his liquor store idea without ever offering any alternatives that they might find acceptable? Why didn't the family ever consider business possibilities other than a liquor store? These could include a laundromat, dry-cleaners, barbershop, florist shop or shoe store or acquiring rental income property. [I have a great uncle and great aunt (born 1901 & 1903) both about mama's age who came to Chicago from Mississippi in the 1930s and with their spouses worked a number of years in factories and by the 1940s had saved enough money to buy multi-unit buildings in Bronzeville to become landlords. They each opened a restaurant on their property. They were self-supporting/self-employed for the rest of their lives. The Youngers had the advantage of a lump sum of money to pursue a similar course but clearly did not realize how blessed they were.] 18 Why did we never see the Youngers plan anything as a family? We only saw them react. They knew for six months that the insurance money was coming but made no plans for how to use it. Instead, Momma brought the house in reaction to learning earlier that same day that Ruth was considering an abortion. Mamma handed over the rest of the money to Walter in reaction to her guilt about Walter’s despair. By not planning, the Youngers turned economic opportunity into a serious of dilemmas. How could they have never even discussed buying a house moving to a larger space during the six months? If they had, Ruth and Walter would likely have been on better terms and Ruth would have celebrated her pregnancy. If they had considered other business ideas as a family, Walter would not have been so fixated on a liquor store and taken up with outsiders and gotten conned. ---Final question: What was the author conveying by showing us so many unflattering things about the Youngers? Could it be to show that the Youngers problems were mostly due to internal issues and not external racism--even in 1950s Chicago? The family’s lack of a tradition of coming together for meals and to discuss and plan and Walter getting conned out of all that money were not due to racism.

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imo I think the author was trying to state that although racism was the source of all their problems, this caused them to be very negative and dysfunctional as the racism was why they lived in poverty (and ofc because Big Walter died). I think that's why they didn't like talking about the money, and also because Walter was obsessed with making more money. Also idk if I would call it a matriarchy, since it wasn't all women in charge, just that Lena was in charge.

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