A Raisin in the Sun: Theme of Dependency

A Raisin in the Sun: Dependency “Weariness has, in fact, won in this room. Everything has been polished, washed, sat on, used, scrubbed too often. All pretenses but living itself have long since vanished from the very atmosphere of this room.”(23-24) A Raisin in the Sun is a play of dependency, where events are dependent on one other events. Monetarily, the Youngers depend on the insurance check to rescue them from the weariness and familiarity of their one room apartment. Between all the talk about money, though, the fight for the characters to stick to their values remains. Finally, the aspirations of the characters, which depend on the check and the characters self-integrity, make the text what it is; an experimentation as to what actually happens to a dream differed. Three words that best describe and embody this play are credibility, self-integrity and that of ambitions. “Man…I trusted you….Man, I put my life in your hands.” (128) Centuries of being on the Earth, and the human race’s reliance on itself has not changed. Most recently, society relies on technology heavily. However, mankind has almost always relied on money. Credibility is a major idea in A Raisin In The Sun. The prime example of this is Walter misplacing his trust with Willy. Because Willy is greedy, he takes Walter and Bobo’s money and runs, which puts a dent on Walter’s plans for his liquor store and for Beneatha’s schooling. When this happens, Beneatha feels betrayed and hurt by Walter for throwing away her chance at achieving her dream. “While I was sleeping in that bed in there, people went out and took the future right out of my hands! And nobody asked me, nobody consulted me- they just went out and changed my life!”(134), Beneatha confides in Asagai. Even though what happened to Beneatha was a chain reaction of what happened to Walter, she placed her trust in Walter to take care of her money for school, and put it in the bank. In fact, those are the orders that Mama gives to Walter