A Raisin in the Sun

             A Raisin in the Sun, is a story of the Younger's a Southside Chicago family trying to survive in cramped quarters. The descriptions of the props in the play provide a detailed explanation of how each character is personified. Two of the props in the play that relate to the characters are: the $10, 000.00 insurance check and Lena Younger's plant.
             The check from the insurance company is the object of everyone's desire, in one way, shape or form. It is for ten thousand dollars and is from their father's life insurance. Walter Lee is obsessed with the money from it so that he can start a new business, Beneatha, his sister, wants it for medical school tuition, and Ruth wants to help the entire family start fresh in a new house. To Mama, it represents her dead husband and she would rather not deal with the financial burdens that accompany it. Living in a society where the fulfillment of dreams is based upon material wealth, the Younger family strives to overcome their hardships as they search for happiness. As money has never been a way of life for the family, the insurance check's arrival brings each person to see the chance that their own dreams can become reality. Whether in taking a risk through buying a "little liquor store" as Walter wishes to do or in "wanting to cure" as Beneatha dreams, the desires of the family depend upon the fate of Mama's check. In the mind of Walter Lee Younger, the check is the answer of it all, dominating his thoughts. He cannot see beyond the fact that he wants so many things and that only their recently acquired money can bring them about. The idea of money and being able to hold it in his hands blinds him from the evils of society, as he cannot see that the Willy Harris's of the world will steal a person's "life" without a word to anyone. When money becomes nothing but an illusion, Walter is forced to rethink his values and his family's future, realizing that there is
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