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This 5 page paper discusses the issues that Lorraine Hansberry raises in her play, “A Raisin in the Sun.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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this classic work. This paper discusses the issues that are addressed in the play; those issues that are important to a black family in Chicago before the Civil Rights movement
had truly begun. Discussion The original production of A Raisin in the Sun opened in March, 1959, and was important for several reasons. First, the director Lloyd Richards was African-American
director to work on Broadway (Kodat, 1998). In addition, the cast was full of people who have since become household names, including Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett, Jr.
(Kodat, 1998). And its author, Lorraine Hansberry (who was then just 29 years of age), was the first African-American to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (Kodat, 1998).
The play is set in the dingy Chicago apartment of Walter Lee Younger and his wife Ruth and the plot is fairly simple. The family is inherited $10,000 from
a life insurance policy on Walter Lees father, and they are arguing about what to do with the money (Kodat, 1998). But beneath that are many issues that are of
great importance, such as Walter Lees "belated emergency into manhood" (Brantley, 2004). In the production Brantley reviews, he finds much to criticize in Combss performance, specifically that he never fully
develops Walter, who is the central character; this vacuum at the center of the play is a "significant problem, since Walter Lee is meant to represent a new generational spirit
among African-Americans in a time of social transition" (Brantley, 2004). The actress playing Walter Lees sister Beneatha, who wants to become a doctor, is also lacking, which causes Brantley
to comment that neither of the actors "makes an argument for this generation as one to pin your hopes on" (Brantley, 2004). The criticism shows precisely how close an actor
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