Raisin In The Sun

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A Raisin in the Sun depicts the hardships of African American women, and their struggle to succeed through the life of Beneatha Younger. Beneatha is a poor African American woman, whose dream is to break the habitual stereotypes set on her by gender roles and racial prejudice by becoming a doctor. Her dreams seem quixotic. Not only is she set into the housewife mold because she is a woman, but she is black, automatically gaining her less respect and rights than any white male that enters her classroom. As a woman in the 1930’s, she was expected to get married and do housework such as cleaning and cooking. She is to be, “...a nice...simple...sophisticated girl...not a poet, O.K.?” (II.ii). To many men during that time period, a woman should’ve