Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Lorraine Hansberry's (1995) drama A Raisin in The Sun revolves around the dilemma of Ruth and Walter Lee Younger. The Youngers exist in the racist culture of 1950s Chicago. Residing in a cramped apartment, the Youngers look forward to their move to a house, part of their realization of the "American Dream," with anticipation. However, their new neighbors are unhappy with the prospect of a black family living in their neighborhood, so they conspire with the Clybourne Park Improvement Association to keep them out by offering them money to move somewhere else. Despite Walter Lee Younger's contention that the family will move into the house in Clybourne Park "�because my father my father he earned it for us brick by brick," the dilemma to move or not within the Younger family exposes the connections between class in race in American society (Hansberry, 1995, p. 128).

The Youngers are excited to move to a home in a primarily white neighborhood. However, the play focuses on the efforts of Mama Lena and Ruth to bring Walter Lee to a mature recognition. The Linders would love nothing more than to keep people like the Youngers out of their neighborhood, based primarily on reasons or race and prejudices against African Americans. Ruth and Mama Lena struggle to make Walter become aware that African Americans are exiled in mainstream society, an exile that is orchestrated unfairly, based on race, and is characterized by individuals like t

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