Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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Lorraine Hansberry is a famous african american playwright. She was inspired by Langston Hughes’ poem “Dream Deferred”. She wrote an entire play based off of his poem. Her play is called Raisin in the Sun. This play is about the Younger family, a black family living on the Southside of Chicago. The whole family tries to make their dreams come true. In her play, Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses Mama, Walter and Beneatha to show the negative consequences that occur when you defer your dreams.
First, Hensberry uses mama to show the negative consequences that occur when you defer your dreams. Mama is hardworking. She is always doing everything she can to help their family and to have a better life. She lives with her daughter, her son …show more content…

Walter is racist and sexist. He works driving rich white people around and he is sick of this. He wants to be a boss, he wants to be the king of his jungle. He has a wife and a son. They all live with his mom. When things doesn’t go right for him, or not the way he wants, everything he does is drink and walk. Walter is tired of working for white people, he wants to open a liquor store illegally. When mama got the money from his father’s life insurance, he asked for some money to open the liquor store, and she said no. She got really mad at her, and started getting drunk everyday. He didn’t show up to work for three days and lost his job. However, When mama finally gave him the money to open the liquor store, his friend ran away with all the money, including the part that he was supposed to put in the bank so his sister can go to college. Walter says, “Gone, what you mean Willy is gone? Gone where? You mean he when by himself. You mean he went off to Springfield by himself - to take care of getting the license.” (Hensberry 128). This proves that his dream of having a liquor store is not gonna happen because his friend ran away all of his money. Also, he wanted his son to go to college and be whoever he wants to, and now, it’s not going to happen too. He was surprised and really mad that his friend did that do him. This proves that Hensberry uses Walter to show all of the bad

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