A Raisin In The Sun Character Analysis Essay

Nathan D. Burke
Mrs. Love Hilliard
Multicultural Literature and Film
19 February 2016
A Raisin in the Sun The most important person in the play would have to be Mama. Consistently throughout the play she is the figure everyone looks to for advice, the voice of reason, and the head of the Younger household. She shows her compassion for everyone in several instances but never appears weak. She has love for her children and everything that they do good or bad and isn’t afraid to put them in their place. In the last instances of the play when she speaks to Benny she states “There is always something left to love. If you ain't learned that you ain't learned nothing.” Defending her son while calling out her daughter and yet she cares for both of them with the utmost love and affection. To Mama this house is a new beginning for the family. a place that isn’t so cramped tight that her grandchild has to sleep on the living room floor. She looks at it for hope and a new chance at …show more content…
He has come to the Youngers in an attempt to buy them out of their newly purchased house. His demeanor and speech is that of a very nervous man. He knows as well as the reader that what he is doing is clearly prejudice and even states that race has nothing to do with it. “race prejudice simply doesn’t enter into it. It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities.” In this small section of the speech he manages to contradict himself completely by saying it doesn’t have to do with race but you should be with your own kind. He may genuinely care about the families that are fire bombed for living in a white neighborhood but more likely than not it’s to save the pride of the whitey’s that live in that particular

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