A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

On opening night, after multiple curtain calls, the audience cried out for the author, whereupon Poitier jumped into the audience and pulled Hansberry onto the stage for her ovation. After much wavering and vacillating, the Youngers decide to continue with their plans to move - in spite of their financial reversals and in spite of their having been warned by a weak representative of the white neighborhood that blacks are not welcome. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, as well as the first with a black director, Mr.

One of Walter Lee's prospective business partners, however, runs off with the money, a loss which tests the spiritual and psychological mettle of each family member. He immediately invests it secretly in his liquor store scheme, believing that he will perhaps quadruple his initial investment. In an attempt to make things right between herself and her son, Mama entrusts Walter Lee with the rest of the money. When Mama decides to use part of the money as a down payment on a house in a white neighborhood, her conflict with Walter escalates and causes her deep anguish. Minor conflicts erupt over their disagreements. MAMA (Not liking the Lord’s name used thus) Bennie RUTH Just listen to herjust listen BENEATHA Oh, God MAMA If you use the Lord’s name just one more time. The mother objects mainly for ethical reasons she is vehemently opposed to the idea of selling liquor. The son, Walter Lee Younger, is so desperate to be a better provider for his growing family that he wants to invest the entire sum in a liquor store with two of his friends. When the play opens, Mama, the sixty-year-old mother of the family, is waiting for a $10,000 insurance check from the death of her husband, and the drama will focus primarily on how the $10,000 should be spent. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about an African American family aspiring to move beyond segregation and disenfranchisement in 1950s Chicago. This play tells the story of a lower-class black family's struggle to gain middle-class acceptance.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry