In the final moments of A Raisin in the Sun, Mama explains h…
In the final moments of A Raisin in the Sun, Mama explains how [__1__] has redeemed himself by rejecting [__2__]’s offer to purchase the house on behalf of the neighborhood association. She describes him as entering “into his manhood” at long last (1619).
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The title of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is an allusion to Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” in which the poem’s speaker poses the question of whether a “dream deferred dr[ies] up / Like a raisin in the sun” (lines 1–2). The poem is also the epigraph of the play. Which of the following statements is a detail from the play that demonstrates how Hansberry’s characters exemplify this idea of a “dream deferred?”
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