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Plot. Walter and Ruth Younger, and their son Travis, along with Walter's mother Lena (Mama) and younger sister Beneatha, live in poverty in a run-down two-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Side. Walter is barely making a living as a limousine driver. Though Ruth is content with their lot, Walter desperately wishes to become wealthy.
- Lorraine Hansberry
- March 11, 1959
“The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun. It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic”; “… one of a handful of great American dramas … A Raisin in the Sun belongs in the inner circle, along with Death of a Salesman, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and The Glass Menagerie.” So wrote The ...
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Mar 23, 2015 · A Raisin in the Sun. LORRAIN HANSBERRE Y. A Raisin in the Sun. Characters. RUTH YOUNGER GEORGE MURCHISON TRAVIS YOUNGER MRS. JOHNSON WALTER LEE YOUNGER (BROTHER) KARL LINDNER BENEATHA YOUNGER BOBO LENA YOUNGER (MAMA) MOVIN MEGN JOSEPH ASAGAI. The action of the play is set in Chicago's South side, sometime between World War II and the present.
Feb 28, 2020 · 142 pages : 21 cm "A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a black middle-class family in Chicago." --commitment to retain 20151208 Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle award as the best play of the 1958-59 season
Mama, you look like you're fixin' to go on out and chop you some cotton, sure enough. Oh, now, darlin', come on. Give Grandma a hug. Don't you pay 'em no mind, darlin'. Now you come on and help me with these things down in the basement,and come next spring I'll show you how we grow azaleas. Come on now, honey.
Jun 28, 2022 · English. viii, 135 pages ; 19 cm. A three-act play concerned with tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s. Access-restricted-item. true.
A Raisin in the Sun examines the effects of racial prejudice on the fulfillment of an African-American family’s dreams. The play centers on the Youngers, a working-class family that lives in Chicago’s South Side during the mid-twentieth century. Shortly before the play begins, the head of the Younger family, Big Walter, dies, leaving the ...
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