Success/Values: Walter Lee defines success as material and financial gain. Beneatha defines success as self-actualization, or learning about and nurturing oneself. But to their mother, Lena, success is less self-centered and lies more in creating a happy, healthy family. Lena freque...

A Raisin in The Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry is a short novel set in Chicago in the 1960's. It revolves around particular events in the lives of the Younger family when they receive an insurance check for ten thousand dollars. The Younger family is immediately introduced and we immediately beco...