Hansberry/setting In ”raisin In The Sun”
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...in the Sun,” the Younger family is portrayed within the setting of a “tiny South Side Chicago apartment” (Hosten 52). The title of the play comes from Langston Hughes’s poem, which “compares a dream deferred too long to a raisin rotting in the sun” (Ardolino 181). The play concerns how the dreams and ambitions of this African American family have been deferred by racism and also the family’s aspiration, led by the family matriarch, Lena, to escape the ghetto and find a better life in a home in Clybourne Park, an all-white neighborhood. The ghetto setting is pictured in the play as symbolic of racism in general, that is, as blocking their dreams and aspirations. This portrayal brings up the question of what ghetto life was like in Chicago at this time.
By the 1920s, a “cluster of adjoining neighborhoods” on the South Side of Chicago had coalesced into a ghetto known as the “Black Belt” (Bennett). Discriminatory real-estate policies and the “threat of violence” kept...
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