There are many themes analysis in A Raisin in the Sun I personal only think there is only three main problems which are divisive effects of racism, poverty, segregation. There are only four main characters who are Mama/ Lena, Walter, Ruth, Beneatha Younger. The Youngers, live in the Chicago slums in a cramped roach-infested apartment, and sharing a bathroom with neighbors across the hall. Mama points out that something has come between her and her children. Walter Mama’s son also points out that
Dreams Deferred “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore and then run?” (Hughes) A Raisin in the Sun essentially is about dreams, as each of the main characters skirmish to deal with the repressive conditions that rule their lives. The title of the play mentions a supposition that Langston Hughes famously postured in a poem he had written about, dreams that were disremembered or put to the side, deliberating if those dreams were going to wither up like “a raisin in the sun”
A Raisin in the Sun/Analysis “A Raisin in the Sun” received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play of the year. Lorraine Hansberry, author of the novel, is the youngest playwright and first black writer to win the award. She is credited with being one of the first black playwright to create realistic black character for the stage. Lorraine Hansberry died at very young age of forty four from cancer in nineteen sixty-five “Her life inspired Nina Simone to write the song "To Be Young
A Raisin in the Sun Play Analysis In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, dreams are a necessity to each and every character. Dreams are what the characters in this play survive off of. They are what fuels each and everyday of their lives. For some of the characters in this play, their lives seemed worthless without the hopes of their dreams coming true, but for others, the dream itself was worthless if it meant losing what was truly important in order to obtain that dream. Major conflict