The Theme of Money is not Everything in the Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun.
In Lorraine Hansberry's drama A Raisin in the Sun the round characters, which are the Younger family is finding out the hard way that wealth can be found in other forms than money. In this play the low class Younger family is shown through bad experiences that material things are worthless.
One of the main characters Lena Younger also known as Mama, lost her husband and is waiting for the arrival of the insurance check of ten thousand dollars. Mama is a retired house made and is the mother of Walter and Beneatha Younger. Beneatha is a student trying to become a doctor. Walter has a wife named Ruth and a son named Travis. They all live under same roof but there dreams are not the same.
Throughout the family there were a lot of ideas on how to spend the money. Mama's dream was to buy a house in a nice neighborhood for the family to live in. She also wanted to put away money so her......
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