The family eagerly awaits the arrival of the insurance check, which has the potential to make the family’s long deferred dreams into reality. Shortly before the play begins, the head of the Younger family, Big Walter, dies, leaving the family to inherit a $10,000 life insurance payment. The play centers on the Youngers, a working-class family that lives in Chicago’s South Side during the mid-twentieth century. This Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social, and political context, and on the themes, characters, language, and structure of the play, as well as a list of suggested reading and questions for further study and a review of performance history.A Raisin in the Sun examines the effects of racial prejudice on the fulfillment of an African-American family’s dreams. Humane and heart-rending, the play depicts characters and a whole society with complexity and reality.
The play is set in southside Chicago, where Walter Lee, a black chauffeur, dreams of a better life and hopes to use his father’s life insurance money to open a liquor store. She was also the first person to be called ‘young, gifted and black’. Hansberry was the youngest and the first black writer to receive this award. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
A Raisin in the Sun is a classic American play: a groundbreaking 1950s civil rights drama and has a strong claim to be the greatest play of the black American experience.ĭeeply committed to the black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry’s brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 34.
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