A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
The setting plays a key role throughout the play, it mainly serves as a reason to leave. The southside of Chicago seemed to only hold back Walter and Beneatha, and they desperately wanted things to change. Walter saw his home as society's way of holding him back because he was a black man. He lived in a poor area with a poor house surrounded by poor people, and he wanted to be wealthy and to be equal to those who felt so inferior to. Bennie wanted to leave in order to make a name for herself. She wanted to be a doctor so that she could try to cure the world of the sickness that infected, but she knew she could never make any progress being shackled down in Chicago. She had dreams of going to Africa in order to strengthen the people so that they could be strong enough to take down their oppressive colonizers. Bennie couldn't take down her own oppessors (the white people), so she thought she may be able to make a difference in a new land. Asagai taught Bennie that he could "teach and work and things will happen, slowly and swiftly" (Hansberry 522). Bennie took up this outlook when her brother Walter could never do. Walter was all about changing his ways as soon as possible. Walter's plan may work, but Bennie's plan will pay off greater in the end.
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