Who Said It?
I want so many things that they are driving me crazy...Mama, look at me.
Walter
This check for $10,000 sets the story in motion.
Life Insurance Check
The play’s title comes from this Langston Hughes poem.
Harlem
A Raisin in the Sun was written by this playwright.
Lorraine Hansberry
This actor played Walter Lee Younger in the original Broadway production.
Sydney Poitier
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learn nothing.
Walter loses the family’s money when he invests in this type of business.
Liquor Store
Mama’s plant symbolizes this.
Hope for her family's future.
The play was first performed in this year.
1959
The play was adapted into a film in this year
1961
You just can’t force people to change their hearts, son.
Mr. Lindner
The Younger family wants to move to this primarily white neighborhood.
Clybourne Park
Walter’s dream of owning a liquor store represents this.
Financial Independence
The play explores this major racial issue in mid-20th century America.
Housing discrimination
The title A Raisin in the Sun is a metaphor for this.
Dreamed Deffered
Well—I do—all right?—thank everybody! And forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all!
Beneatha
Beneatha is torn between two suitors, Asagai and this man.
George Murchison
Beneatha’s hair represents this theme in the play.
African Heritage
The Younger family is part of this social class.
Working class
Beneatha’s Nigerian boyfriend, Asagai, dreams of returning to this country.
Nigeria
Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams—but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
Mama
Mr. Lindner offers the Youngers money to do this.
Stay out of Clybourne Park
The Youngers’ new home represents this broader American ideal.
American Dream
The play was the first Broadway play written by this kind of playwright.
African American Woman
Lorraine Hansberry was inspired by her own family’s experience with this legal battle.
Hansberry vs Lee