Raisn In The Sun Review

                                                          A Raisin In The Sun Review
                                                                       John Rick
                                                                        Grade 9
                                                                        10/12/11

This review written by Brooks Atkinson covers what was good about Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the sun. She thinks that the play covers some, “ serious problems”. One of the things she covers is how honest the play was. How a, ”Negro family in the south side of Chicago”, lives at that time. I feel this part of the passage was the most meaningful. I deem the fact that this is the truth. This play definitely was based on how a, ”Negro family in the south side of Chicago”, lives. How do I know this? The 1950s and 1960s were times where there was mass discrimination. Another problem this play talks about that she also covers that the Younger’s are, “human beings who want, on the one hand, to preserve their family pride and, on the other hand, to break out of the poverty that seems to be their fate.” I imagine this means the family has a lot under their belt and in the process of getting everything they need done, they need to preserve the pride that their family has, and at a time like then that seems difficult to do while going through all of the stress.