A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

in the words of black American poet Langston Hughes (1902-67), dry up/ like a raisin in the sun./ Or will they. 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. Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark 1959 play is as relevant today as it. 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. Lorraine Hansberrys award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black. 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. 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. 'A play that changed American theater forever. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life.

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. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama.

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