Symbols and Allusions
At the start of the play, the Younger family is waiting for this, a symbol of opportunity and an end to the poverty in which they live.
What is Big Walter's life insurance check?
The job that Bennie wants that causes Walter and Beneatha to have a fight at the breakfast table in Act 1. Walter asks Beneatha "Why can't you just be like other women?"
What is a doctor?
The reason why Mama gets so mad when Bennie is blasphemous and takes the Lord's name in vain. Mama is...
What is religious?
The city in which the play is set
What is Chicago?
The suitor that Beneatha chooses by the play's end.
Who is Asagai?
This object survives - even if it doesn't thrive - thanks to Mama's caring ministrations.
What is Mama's plant?
The internal struggle Ruth grapples with in Act 1; Her decision causes a stir with Mama and Beneatha.
What is Ruth's pregnancy and possible abortion?
He was hard-working, quiet, and loving, but ultimately dissatisfied with his lot in life and wanted to change that for his family.
Who is Big Walter?
The time period during which the play took place.
What are the 1950s?
The thing about George that Walter attacks by calling his white shoes "faggoty"
What is his manhood or masculinity?
This Titan (a gigantic Greek deity) brought fire to earth in ancient mythology; George calls Walter this as an insult after Walter's speech that he is "a giant among ants!"
Who is Prometheus?
The association that sends a "welcoming" committee in the form of Karl Lindner - to greet the Younger family by telling them to stay where they are (in a passive aggressive way).
What is the Clybourne Park Association?
What helps Mama's resolve to move to Clybourne Park, despite it being an all-white neighborhood.
What is her determination and bravery?
This is known as the discriminatory practice of determining eligibility for home loans by drawing a color coded map; the practice was inherently racist.
What is redlining?
The thing about Bennie that Asagai is interested in, bu that George is NOT
What is her mind?
A change in this signaled to the audience that Beneatha was embracing her black womanhood and rejecting being an "assimilationist"?
What is her hair?
When someone is down and out, this is the thing that Mama says we need to give each other the most?
What is love and support?
Walter, and ultimately Beneatha too, are shown time and again to have this quality, demonstrated through their entitlement about the insurance money.
What is selfish?
The country that Asagai is from
What is Nigeria?
The gifts given to Mama by the rest of the family, as they prepare to move.
What are gardening tools and a hat?
Mama's long held dream, which shows her love and care for her family above all else.
What is a home and a garden?
The moment in which Walter finally becomes a man.
What is Walter's decision not to sell the house?
Ruth and Mama share this quality in common, demonstrated by their love and support of their family.
What is selfless?
The reason that Mama and Ruth approve of Bennie dating George Murchison
What is his wealth?
The reason behind Walter's breakdown at the end of Act 2
What is Willie's theft of all the money?