Raisin Bran in the Sun: Stereotypes

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Stereotypes

Ruth comes home from being at the doctors all day. Ruth talks about her trip to Mama and Ruth mistakingly says that she (the doctor) said that everything was going fine. The Younger's normal doctor is a male, not a female. When knowing this, Mama questions Ruth about what happened at her check-up. Then Ruth denies that she saw a female doctor at all for her check-up. Why does Ruth deny that she saw a female doctor? In the 1950's is there a problem with women holding meaningful jobs in American society?
(MPK)

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Facts on "A Raisin in the Sun"

genre · Realist drama

time and place written · 1950s, New York

setting (time) · Between 1945 and 1959

setting (place) · The South Side of Chicago

protagonist · Walter Lee Younger

major conflict · The Youngers, a working-class black family, struggle against economic hardship and racial prejudice.

rising action · Ruth discovers that she is pregnant; Mama makes a down payment on a house; Mama gives Walter the remaining insurance money; Walter invests the money in the liquor store venture.

climax · Bobo tells the Youngers that Willy has run off with all of Walter's invested insurance money; Asagai makes Beneatha realize that she is not as independent as she thinks.

falling action · Walter refuses Mr. Lindner's offer to not move; the Youngers move out of the apartment to their new house in the white neighborhood; Beneatha finds new strength in Asagai.

themes · The value and purpose of dreams, the need to fight racial discrimination, the importance of family

motifs · Racial identity, the home

symbols · “Eat your eggs,” Mama's plant, Beneatha's hair