In both A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, Karl Lindner, a white “traditionally-thinking” man, demonstrates an undermining behavior in terms of race through his actions and words and a related arrogance that comes off as ignorance. Yet, he differs in his approach to communicating with each of the families. Attempting to connect himself to both of the families in each novel, the Stollers, and the Youngers, in different ways, Lindner’s motives present themselves through his quickly changing moods as well as his tentative yet pretentious approach to these families. While he behaves differently in both texts, similarly, he shares his love of talking in both and also his act of intrusive actions in other's …show more content…
This is the first time the audience sees a white character in the play, so it plays a testament to the next events that unfold. While introductions are happening, all the focus is on how Karl will react to their household and the people inhabiting it. From the beginning, Beneatha is uncomfortable with him because she is the one who opens the door to reveal him at their front step. The stage directions, “(Smoothing her hair with slight embarrassment)” (Hansberry 113) reveal how even though she is a refined woman of this time, she still heeds racist stereotypes because it is how she's been brought up. This quickly changes, however, throughout the conversation between the Younger family and Lindner and she promptly reverts to her protective nature towards her family. Through covert prejudiced words, such as “...We also have the category of what the association calls-(he looks elsewhere)-uh-special community problems...” (Hansberry 115) and “Anybody can see that you are a nice family of folks, hard-working and honest I’m sure. Today everybody knows what it means to be on the outside of something” (Hansberry
American dream for everyone,” in New York, Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, offered a very different perspective (20). Set in post World War II Southside Chicago, Hansberry’s drama explores the conflict that arises within an African American family when Mama, the family's matriarch, receives a $10,000 life insurance settlement and spends a portion of it to buy a home in the restricted white neighborhood of Clybourne Park. However, Hansberry’s play not only highlighted the issue of housing
of the Nazi regime, brought on the Holocaust. In his efforts to bring the Jews to extinction he captured and imprisoned the Jews into concentration camps separated from the rest of society. Karl Linder in his efforts to keep the community of Clybourne Park “pure” for his growing family, attempts to assert dominance over the Stoller family (the Caucasian family moving away) and the Younger family (the African American family moving in), as if attempting to create a reverse concentration camp. He
In this essay I will be comparing two playwrights, A Raisin in the Sun and A Doll’s House, to one another. I will also compare the two to modern time and talk about whether or not over time our society has changed any. Each of these plays has a very interesting story line based in two very different time eras. Even though there is an 80 year time gap the two share similar problems and morals, things you could even find now in the year of 2016. In the following paragraphs I will go over the power
lining in the 1960s was a way of making African American neighborhoods extremely poor. African Americans were stuck is areas with weak education systems and inferior home conditions, while the white people had big houses with great schools. In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Younger, the main character is Mama’s son, Beneatha’s brother, Ruth’s husband, and Travis’s father. The Younger family is a family of black people living in a small, dirty apartment in a poor neighborhood located in South Chicago. Walter’s
Roles of Women in A Raisin In the Sun, The House On Mango Street, and A Yellow Raft In Blue Water A Raisin In the Sun, The House On Mango Street, and A Yellow Raft In Blue Water all contain strong, defined images of women. These women control and are controlled. They are oppressed and liberated. Standing tall, they are confident and independent. Hunched low, they are vulnerable and insecure. They are grandmothers, aunts, mothers, wives, lovers, friends, sisters and children. Although
somehow, should strive to get it. Everyone in America wants to have some kind of financial success in his or her lives. The American dream is said to be that each man have the right to pursue happiness and strive for the beat. In the play "A Raisin in the Sun", the author shows an African-American family struggling to get out of the poverty line, which is stopping them from making financial stability, or the American Dream. Its main focus is on Walter's effort to make it, or be somebody. She also
offer that would make them more money, in so doing they realized they could keep their pride and they knew they could work as they always had to better themselves. Works Cited Hansberry, Lorraine. A raisin in the Sun. Mason: Cengage Learning, 2011. Print.