Lorraine Hansberry's searing drama about an American family's struggle with poverty, racism, and inner conflict as they strive for a better way of life on the cusp of the civil rights era.
Walter Younger and his mother, Lena, both yearn to move their family out of Chicago's Southside ghetto. When Lena's late husband's insurance check arrives, Lena hopes to use it to buy a house in a white neighborhood while Walter hopes to invest it in a liquor business.
Presciently, Hansberry raised issues that later became matters for national debate: abortion, black pride, urban decay, educational aspiration in the black community.The lines from Langston Hughes poem Harlem that give the play its title still seem to sum up the play’s essence: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
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