The title of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is an …
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?”
Read DetailsConsider the following claim about A Raisin in the Sun: In s…
Consider the following claim about A Raisin in the Sun: In some ways, George and Asagai represent two competing understandings of life in the United States. George favors assimilation into a White culture; Asagai celebrates his African heritage in defiant rejection of a White culture that often denigrates Black experience. Which of the following is NOT a detail from the play that supports this claim?
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