A Raisin In The Sun Feminist Analysis

We as Americans reminisce on history to see and understand the advancements we have accomplished and the same can be said of not only the advancement of women but also the image of how women are portrayed. Although in today’s day and age, their figures and beauty are scrutinized but also exploited. For instance in both Tennessee Williams motion picture, “A Street Car Named Desire” and Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun you are able to see the evolution of the not only the portal of women but also the advancements they accomplish. In both Tennessee Williams movie entitled “A Street Car Named Desire” and Lorraine Hansberry’s play entitled A Raising In the Sun, the women in both works although similar in their portal of weak counterparts to men both physically and mentally, both authors William’s and Hansberry portray their leading ladies uniquely. In Williams’s rendition of “A Street Car Named Desire” his leading ladies Blanch, who is portrayed as a weak women who does not understand and is portrayed as a failure in what a true southern belle and wife are; whereas, her sister Stella is the epitome
Featured in Williams movie is illustrated the socio-political views of women sole occupation is to be home, providing for the family through cleaning and catering to their husband. Women having no status other than those enforced by their husbands and male counterparts. Whereas in Hansberry’s work you are able to see the difference in which women were participating in providing for family through not only traditional occupations we can consider imaginary, which include cooking and cleaning for the household but also how it is women can provide for their family in providing additional economic assistance through some form of employment, though the employment gained is still considered work befitting a