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A 5 page paper which examines how money often influences decisions and actions in this popular play about African-American life during the 1950s. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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securing the American Dream: Hard work + determination = success. Of course, the wages received for that hard work is never referred to, but it is not the work
itself that purchases the houses, cars, educations and luxuries that Americans on both sides of the color line seek for themselves and their families. Lorraine Hansberrys moving play, A
Raisin in the Sun, winner of both the 1959 New York Drama Critics Award and Best Play of the Year Awards, considers the trials and tribulations of three generations of
the Younger family - "Mama" Lena, her son Walter Lee Jr., her daughter Beneatha, Walter Lees wife Ruth, and their son Travis - who live together in a crowded Chicago
tenement apartment. Walter Sr. has recently died, and each of the adult family members have their own views on how the $10,000 insurance policy he left should be spent.
All of the decisions and actions that take place throughout the course of the play center around one primary consideration - how money can change the Youngers lives for
the better, while also buying them the respectability from the white establishment their race and lowly social status has denied them. After her husbands death, Mama assumed her role as
head of the family, dedicated to her fervent dream that one day, she will own a nice (but not overly ostentatious) house in the upscale white neighborhood of Clybourne Park,
where the family can live and grow together, strengthening the bonds of family. She represents the traditional Protestant ethic of "decency, Christianity, and hard work" (Turner 2). However,
she is also practical and knows that only money can transform dreams into reality. By choosing to give a portion of the insurance money to Walter Lee and Beneatha,
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