A Raisin in the Sun is a drama is written by Lorraine Hansberry. The title is from a poem named “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes. When it asks what happens to a dream that is deferred. The story is about a story of a low class black family’s struggle. The family lives in a small apartment, which is too small for it’s five tenants. The focus of the story is on how to spend the ten thousand-dollar insurance checks from the death of Mama’s husband Big Walter.
The conflict of the story comes about over the disagreements on how the money should be spent. Mama wanted to buy a house, Beneath a needed money for medical school, and Walter had dreams of owning a liquor store. In the end Mama’s confidence in Walter to spend the check wisely climaxed his manhood from a desperate family man that is shackled by poverty, to man that is obsessed with the dream of succeeding, then to being a real man, a hero to his family. Throughout the story Walter matures from being a man that is ashamed of his manhood to a man that has pride in himself. My beliefs are that Walter establishes himself as the protagonist because in the falling action of the story he matures only for the family and especially for his son who is watching him the whole time. I believe that the hidden theme in the story is centered around Walter, the question that she poses is, “What happens to a person whose dreams grow more and more passionate while his hope of achieving the dream go dimmer each day”, which is what happened to Walter..
The Term Paper on Story of the Underground Man
The Underground Man when confronted with reality sinks into his world of fantasy, and yet, realizes the depth of his fantasy in the real world.The Underground Man went to all sorts of strange places in an effort to amuse himself. Once he saw a man being thrown out of a window of a tavern and entered the tavern in the hopes that someone would throw him out of the window as well. Upon entering the ...
