Raisin In The Sun Abortion

The play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, is about a family that lives in a cramped apartment in Chicago. One of the characters, Ruth Younger, finds out that she is pregnant. A child is a lot of responsibility and are very costly. The Younger family is stressed as it is, bringing a new baby into the mix may not be wise. Ruth struggles with these issues over the course of the play. At the beginning of the play, the relationship between Ruth and her children is fairly tense. The Younger family is struggling to make ends meet, Ruth put down a deposit at an abortion clinic, and on top of it all Walter is just increasing the conflict within the household. In relation to Travis, Ruth doesn’t really know what to do with Travis. She doesn’t know how to act as a parent, a caregiver, if she cannot even care for this baby. Halfway through the play, their relationship has slightly progressed. Ruth is in the middle of making one of the hardest decision of her life, she can’t decide whether or not to follow through with the abortion. However, since she has realized that things with Walter are worse than she thought, Ruth is leaning
Where was the baby going to live? How were they going to take care of the baby? Is there enough money to take care of an infant? Is getting an abortion the right choice? While she struggled under the pressure of these questions, Ruth took control in the form of stricter parenting over her son, Travis. In the end, Ruth had not faltered, but flourished. While Ruth’s relationship with her children had wavered at the start of the play, at the end it had settled and strengthened. Ruth has developed into her role as a provider and a parent. Although the relationship was shaky when Ruth was contemplating the abortion, it had only got stronger at the end. This play shows how relationships can be put under duress, but they do not crack under pressure. Instead, they