Raisin in the Sun
LORRAINE ANSBERRY H
A Raisinin the Sun
Characters
RUTH YOUNGER TRAVIS YOUNGER WALTER LEE YOUNGER (BROTHER) BENEATHA YOUNGER LENA YOUNGER (MAMA) JOSEPH ASAGAI GEORGE MURCHISON MRS. JOHNSON KARL LINDNER BOBO MOVING MEN
The action of the playis set in Chicago's side, sometime South between World War II and thepresent.
Act I
Scene I Friday morning. Scene II Thefollowing morning.
Act II
Scene I Later, thesame day. Scene II Friday night, a few later. weeks Scene III Moving day, one later. week
Act III
An hour later.
ACT I
SCENEI
The YOUNGER living room would comfortable wellbe a and ordered roomifitwere for a not number of indestructible contradictions to this stateofbeing. furnishings andunIts typical are
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Lorraine Hansberry distinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the livingof too many people too for many years—and they aretired.Still,we can seethatatsome time, a time probably no longer rememberedby the (except perfamily haps for MAMA),the furnishings this room were actually selected of with care and love and even hope—and brought tothis apartment and arranged with taste and pride. That was a long time ago. Now the once loved patternof the couch upholstery has to fight to show from under of itself acres crocheted doilies and couch covers which have themselvesfinally come to be more important than the upholstery. And hereatable or a chair has been moved to disguisetheworn places thecarpet; in but the carpet has fought back by showing its weariness, with depressing uniformity, elsewhere surface. on its Weariness has, in fact, won in this room.Everything hasbeen polished, washed, sat on, used, scrubbed too often. Allpretenses but living itself have long since vanished from very atmosphere the of this room. Moreover, a sectionof this room, it is not aroom unto for really itself, though the landlord's lease would make itseemso,slopes backward to provide a small kitchen area, wherefamily prethe
A Raisinin the Sun
Characters
RUTH YOUNGER TRAVIS YOUNGER WALTER LEE YOUNGER (BROTHER) BENEATHA YOUNGER LENA YOUNGER (MAMA) JOSEPH ASAGAI GEORGE MURCHISON MRS. JOHNSON KARL LINDNER BOBO MOVING MEN
The action of the playis set in Chicago's side, sometime South between World War II and thepresent.
Act I
Scene I Friday morning. Scene II Thefollowing morning.
Act II
Scene I Later, thesame day. Scene II Friday night, a few later. weeks Scene III Moving day, one later. week
Act III
An hour later.
ACT I
SCENEI
The YOUNGER living room would comfortable wellbe a and ordered roomifitwere for a not number of indestructible contradictions to this stateofbeing. furnishings andunIts typical are
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Lorraine Hansberry distinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the livingof too many people too for many years—and they aretired.Still,we can seethatatsome time, a time probably no longer rememberedby the (except perfamily haps for MAMA),the furnishings this room were actually selected of with care and love and even hope—and brought tothis apartment and arranged with taste and pride. That was a long time ago. Now the once loved patternof the couch upholstery has to fight to show from under of itself acres crocheted doilies and couch covers which have themselvesfinally come to be more important than the upholstery. And hereatable or a chair has been moved to disguisetheworn places thecarpet; in but the carpet has fought back by showing its weariness, with depressing uniformity, elsewhere surface. on its Weariness has, in fact, won in this room.Everything hasbeen polished, washed, sat on, used, scrubbed too often. Allpretenses but living itself have long since vanished from very atmosphere the of this room. Moreover, a sectionof this room, it is not aroom unto for really itself, though the landlord's lease would make itseemso,slopes backward to provide a small kitchen area, wherefamily prethe