Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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I propose to read Lorraine Hansberry short story, “A Raisin in The Sun” with the intent of examining and exploring three womanist themes. The primary theme is gender wars/battle of the sexes. Beneatha, Ruth, and Lena (Mama) Younger are three generation of women with a different outlook on life. Mama and Ruth share traditional views on marriage, their role as women, and they even work in traditional roles as a domestic servant which is some of the jobs that were open to Black women at the time. Beneatha wants to become a doctor which at the time is a male-dominated profession and she tells Rutha and Mama that she is not concerned with marriage/ might not even get married. However, Walter Lee who is Beneatha brother repeatedly criticizes her

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