Setting
The city and state where A Raisin in the Sun takes place.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
The business Walter Lee Younger dreams of opening.
What is a liquor store?
This character is happy when Mama tells the family she used some of the insurance money for a house.
Who is Ruth?
A character who can be described as resigned to the way things are and frustrated with other's focus on unfulfilled dreams.
Who is Ruth Younger?
"Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs" (Act I, Scene I)
Who is Walter Lee?
(speaking to Ruth)
The room where Travis sleeps.
What is the living room?
The procedure Ruth Younger considers.
What is an abortion?
This character brings ominous gossip to the Younger household.
Who is Mrs. Johnson?
"I am not an assimilationist!" (Act I, Scene II).
Who is Beneatha?
(speaking to Joseph Asagai)
The room which provides "the sole natural light the family may enjoy in the course of a day" (24).
What is the kitchen?
The presence of this character prompts Walter to change his mind about Lindner's offer.
Who is Travis?
"I am sure you people must be aware of some of the incidents which have happened in various part of the city when colored people have moved into certain areas" (116).
Who is Mr. Lindner?
(speaking to the Younger siblings and Ruth)
The neighborhood group Mr. Lindner is from.
What is The Clybourne Park Improvement Association?
The phrase Walter uses when Mama tells him she used some of the money for a house.
What is "butchering my dreams?"
Walter calls out this character for their hypocrisy with the following rhetorical question: "You got any more to say ’bout how people ought to sit down and talk to each other?"
Who is Mr. Lindner?
"Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams--but He did give is children to make them dreams seem worthwhile" (Act I, Scene I).
Who is Mama (Lena)?
(speaking to Ruth)
The name Asagai gives Beneatha translates to this phrase.
What is "one for whom bread is not enough"?
"So-I would rather be living in Buckingham Palace" (Act I, Scene I).
Who is Ruth?
(speaking to Walter)