Topic > Character Analysis of A Raisin In The Sun - 781

“ A Raisin in the Sun” is a play produced in 1959, set in an area where racism was still present and contained many issues where black people were still facing racial problems. Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright, was an African American woman who achieved unexpected success when her work became famous and not only were successful female playwrights rare at the time, but successful young black female playwrights were also a very unusual thing to hear at that moment. However, the Younger family had to deal with these issues throughout the show. The entire family has been affected in many ways and the younger family has big dreams and hopes to get more out of their poor lives. In the play there are many obstacles that each character faces, one character in detail is Beneatha younger, she is a strong and independent person. woman. she is Walter's younger sister and mother Lena's daughter “She is about 20 years old. She is thin like her brother. She is not as pretty as her sister-in-law, but her thin, almost intellectual face has a beauty of its own,” however Beneatha is not like any other typical 20-year-old black woman of the 1950s because she goes to college and she tries to fulfill her dream to become a doctor without the help of a man to support her. Beneatha has many admirers including George and Agasai, Agasai is a rich African-American man who wants to take Undera to Africa with him. She feels excited and her girlish side emerges suddenly and because Beneatha is a strong and independent woman she won't take no for an answer she also tells her mother about her faith in God and how she can't accept the idea that God should take all the credit for what humans have. done or obtained. But since the mother is a religious person... middle of paper... ...but she loves Travis, her nephew, and hopes that their new home includes a large yard for him to play in Undera and mom is that even though they tend to argue with each other sometimes they still care and love each other and try to make up for their mistakes and they also have the same skin tone and strong personality. To conclude, the family finally forgot their despair and moved into their new home for a new life. Even though they knew it was difficult to start all over again, for them it was as if their life had just begun. Lorraine Hansberry successfully characterized characters like Undera and Mama in the story as human beings with desires, dreams, ambition, conflict, weaknesses, and strength. And it was "A Raisin in the Sun" that expressed those dreams and desires and how they ended up being "dreams deferred".."