Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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A Raisin In The Sun Essay
The author of the play A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry, wrote this play in 1959 when she was 29 years old, she had the first play on broadway written by an African American and she was the youngest American to win the New York Critics Circle award. Back in the 1950s, women were expected to stay home and cook and take care of their kids while the men went out and had jobs and made all the money but Lorraine wanted something different. In A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry develops the character of Mama through her treatment of Walter, the treatment of Beneatha and the treatment of her grandson Travis to show that it is not easy being the matriarch of the family but she tries her hardest to be help everyone. …show more content…

Back then they were fighting against segregation and it was difficult for them to get a job or money or even be successful, white people treated them like they were nothing. The 1950s was not only hard for African Americans but also for women. Women were expected to stay home and clean and cook, but they wanted more, women wanted to be treated equally, to get a good job and help make money for their family. Lorraine Hansberry was both African American and a woman living in the 1950s, she wrote the play A Raisin In the Sun based on her life and her family during that time. Even in a time period where she was not welcome she tried to make the best of it, Lorraine Hansberry was the first of her family to go to a non-African American college and she broke barriers. Being in the 1950s was not easy but that is one of the reasons Lorraine wrote her

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