An Analysis Of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Social Class: The Un-chosen Way of Life For families throughout the world it is known that social status and money depict the lifestyle that family lives, their viewpoints, and possibly their goals. Different social classes can be distinguished by inequalities in such areas as power, authority, wealth, working and living conditions, life-styles, life-span, education, religion, and culture (Cody). The more money one has, the higher the ambition they may choose to aspire toward, as well as how knowing the right people can help provide instant fulfillment to ones dream. Society has encrypted within itself an indirect stereotyping system which has caused a formulation of class differences within all of humanity. Being so, certain families, and people within those families, particularly men, are expected to achieve the desires and objectives set by
Exquisite examples yielding this topic of class discrepancies can be found in a renowned play by Lorraine Hansberry entitled, "A Raisin in the Sun"; the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, along with Hansberry being the first African American to be honored with the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (Hansberry 347). The play tells the story of the Younger family along with portraying the stories of three young men, all of different social status and background, living in Chicago, trying to attain divergent goals during the 1950's. The hopes and wants of each character specifically themselves demonstrate a discrepancy between how materialistic possessions can alter a man's outlook on what he chooses to achieve in life. With this being said, "A Raisin in the Sun" illustrates such the vivid point of class deciding the direction