A Raisin In The Sun Theme Essay

Dreams, hopes, plans, race, and pride these are just many of the themes in the play A Raisin in the Sun. The play is about the Youngers an African American family who live in the South Side of Chicago. The Youngers were a big family there was Ruth Younger, Travis Younger, Walter Lee Younger, Beneatha Younger, and Mama Younger. All of them lived in a small crammed apartment that was in a poor neighborhood. The Youngers got a check in the mail for $10,000 and that was their chance to move into a bigger house. Mama a bigger house in a nice neighborhood but their was one problem it was a neighborhood with all whites. Karl Lindner a white representative for the neighborhood that Mama bought the house in was trying to get the Youngers to not move in. Karl told Walter Lee that he would pay him not to move into the house because the whites do not want Blacks living in their neighborhood.
Woman and men all over the world have to deal with sexism.
Walter doesn’t think that she should become a doctor he feels that women are only useful to support men and work for them. Walter says “Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy about messing around with sick people then go be a nurse like other women or just get married and be quiet.” (Pg. 38) Walter was being very rude and he is supporting Beneatha to follow her dreams and to get a job.
A Raisin in the Sun has a lot of different mixed feelings and emotions. When it comes to sexism that is one of the main themes throughout the whole play. When Walter Lee says those comments it is a perfect example of how their is a lot of sexism in the play. Walter Lee just doesn’t wanna do things on his own so he tries to get the women to help him and tries to convince them not to get a job and leave him. It is mainly the women that get treated differently not the men because the men are the ones treating the women