Couch Upholstery's A Raisin In The Sun

The term despair means ‘the complete loss or absence of hope’ which is what South Side Chicago mirrored in the novel A Raisin in the Sun. Just by looking around you could tell that all hope was lost when there’s widespread poverty on Chicago’s South Side. Also by taking a look around the Younger home you can see it in the faces of people -- and the furniture?! On the first few pages opening Act I, Scene I, the text says “Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies and couch covers which have themselves finally come to be more important than the upholstery.” I believe there is some symbolism in those lines as well, with the couch being the Younger family and the crocheted
We can try and guess exactly why she loves it so much through clues in the story and recurring themes. Lena’s plant symbolizes her dreams because she wants to be able to grow out of all the problems in the world and live peacefully. In a way the plant to Lena is like money is to the rest of the family -- they love it so much but it doesn't really matter anyway.
There’s a lot of things that generate rage and bitterness common to the ghetto. One of which would be the high crime rates that range from robberies to shootings, stabbings, and things of that nature. Another might be the faulty education system in the ghetto as well poverty that strikes most of the people living in the ghetto. These problems cause the people there to be a lot more angry, less welcoming and bitter as they are frustrated with the situation or
To start, Beneatha is a full of energy character but is also very soft-spoken. Her name has the word beneath in it, followed by the letter a. Beneath a soft spoken voice is someone full of pep. There was a famous explorer in the 16th century named Walter Raleigh, who was described as a very bold person. Maybe the author had him in mind when coming up with the names of characters for the play. Walter from A Raisin in the Sun is also bold and not afraid to take risks as we see with the liquor store (ultimately it ends up failing). The name Lena means ‘torch’, and a torch is something that creates light in the darkest of places. Sounds a lot like Lena’s character in the story, doesn’t it? She is the foundation of the Younger family, the piece that holds them together and leads them through the toughest of times. The name Ruth in Hebrew means satisfied (used in the Old Testament), and Ruth seems to be satisfied with whatever they do with money. She just wants a place for her son Travis to sleep anad doesn’t care what they do with the cash left behind (she’s one of the few characters to feel this