A Raisin In The Sun Play Analysis

Through Struggle One Good Thing Comes. Imagine living in a small apartment with all of your family economically struggling, but you know you and your family will receive ten thousand dollars soon. Everyone holds a plan for that money including you. The money makes you think of your past and things you never could afford. It makes you think of the hard situation you're in. It also makes you think of your future, and the increasing chances to provide for your family. Mama had to deal with this situation in Lorraine Hansberry’s one-act play A Raisin In The Sun. Although some people overlook their importance, Mama’s Plant and check symbolize the past, present, and future of the Younger’s family. Along the one act play of A Raisin
The younger family struggles with money, they live in a worn out apartment, this setting affects the story a lot because that's the main reason they are in this story, they don’t want to live there anymore so everyone has different ideas on how to get out of there(Thomas P 1). In the short play, A Raisin in the Sun talks about a poor family that tries to cope with the realities of life on Chicago's Southside. The Younger’s struggles with money and they argue about the money that they will get from Mama's husband life insurance. Walter seemed to be the biggest problem caused by the play. His risky moves with money always seemed to backfire. No one really trusted Walter because he talked very big about business and investments that would help the family make it big, and finally get out of their current poor situation. Everyone was shutting him down and never gave him a chance to talk about his dreams and goals because they just seemed too unrealistic to everyone else. Ruth; Walters wife almost always disproves of Walter's friends and ideas he may have had. For example, investing in the liquor store. She brings a sense of control mean to the story, she keeps Walter in check to a certain extent (DOMINA “Index”). Ruth and Walter don't have a very good relationship, they seem to always be arguing about something, either ruth not approving of Walter's friend’s or not approving of his dreams, ruth is more of a realist and Walter is stuck in the clouds , they also argue about money and in what the check should be spent on (DOMINA “Literary Analysis”). The younger family go through big struggles and they argue a lot because of their needs and the lack of money. Everyone in the family hopes for something better, Mama wants and hopes for a new home so does Ruth, Beneath hopes to go to medical school, Walter