Greed In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Ambitious, independent, and hardworking. Beneatha Younger selfish at times believes that she could annihilate her family's poverty. In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry introduces a young strong and very ambitious woman striving to succeed. Beneatha ,younger sister to Walter Lee and daughter to Lena, is a well educated and open minded African American woman who is very ambitious and strives to reach her goal to become a doctor. She will work as hard as possible to overcome her family's poverty
The Younger family of five struggle to continue living in the small overcrowded apartment. The play takes place in the city of Chicago, in the early 1950s. Each individual has a goal set for their future, that they would like to accomplish. Beneatha
As financial problems is one thing beneatha still has to deal with her family not supporting her and trying to make her change her mind because they all have dreams of their own. For example Walter lee wants to open up a liquor store and mama wants to buy a house but the $10,000 check from her dad's insurance check cannot cover all 3 dreams so it interferes with Beneatha's dreams in becoming a
In the opening scene of the play, Walter Lee says that there “ain’t many girls who decide to be a doctor” and suggests that Beneatha “go be a nurse like other women—or just get married and be quiet…”, showing that Beneatha’s dream to be a doctor at that time was very ambitious and unusual when the standard role for women was to pretty much only marry and let their husband do the rest like providing and treating them. However, many women would love the idea of not having to work and only depend on their husbands, but Beneatha’s is much different and is about being independent and being her own self, a smart young woman who will go great lengths and refuses to let her race affect her from succeeding in her