Glass Ceiling In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun
Glass Ceiling
In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the Junior family is burdened with a glass ceiling that is not just restraining the female gender, but the African American Race as well. Throughout the book, a laboring family is not earning what they deserve, their dreams a reality. They struggle through living in a run down and cramped house, they way are fated to live by their race. The only income they receive comes from Walters pay check and as compensation for Walter Sr.’s death. Walter works as a driver and despises his job. He makes minimal pay and is treated like a slave. The white men are businessmen, and although Walter does not think he lacks the skill to become one, can’t because he is African American. He wishes to own a liquor store which will support his family. When he finally receives the money, he is tricked into giving it away to a man who steals it and runs away. If he were white, it would not be such a struggle to make the money …show more content…
She helps Ruth hold the family together, cleans the house with her, and takes care of Travis with her. She takes care of her own children, Walter and Beneatha. She tells them (145) “There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.” She receives a yearly check for her husband's death. Still, selflessly, she gives some of it away to her son to pursue his dream, in which she does not support. Even after buying the house, a white man comes and tells her “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.” (118) Because she is African-American, she is no longer welcome to live amongst the white people in Clybourne park. Again, due to a glass ceiling that keeps her from being “worthy” of living near white people, she may lose the pursuit of her
In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the Junior family is burdened with a glass ceiling that is not just restraining the female gender, but the African American Race as well. Throughout the book, a laboring family is not earning what they deserve, their dreams a reality. They struggle through living in a run down and cramped house, they way are fated to live by their race. The only income they receive comes from Walters pay check and as compensation for Walter Sr.’s death. Walter works as a driver and despises his job. He makes minimal pay and is treated like a slave. The white men are businessmen, and although Walter does not think he lacks the skill to become one, can’t because he is African American. He wishes to own a liquor store which will support his family. When he finally receives the money, he is tricked into giving it away to a man who steals it and runs away. If he were white, it would not be such a struggle to make the money …show more content…
She helps Ruth hold the family together, cleans the house with her, and takes care of Travis with her. She takes care of her own children, Walter and Beneatha. She tells them (145) “There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.” She receives a yearly check for her husband's death. Still, selflessly, she gives some of it away to her son to pursue his dream, in which she does not support. Even after buying the house, a white man comes and tells her “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.” (118) Because she is African-American, she is no longer welcome to live amongst the white people in Clybourne park. Again, due to a glass ceiling that keeps her from being “worthy” of living near white people, she may lose the pursuit of her