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A Raisin in the Sun-Beneatha Throughout the novel, A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha Younger remains a strong woman with fortified views. She looks at people for who they truly are, has intellectual pride for her studies, questions everything including God, and she admirably cuts all her hair off for the sake of being true to her roots. Beneatha’s character represents a young, black woman’s feminist and unique outlook on life in the 1950’s. For this profound character in the novel, Lorraine Hansberry should be applauded. Even today, it is rare to see characters that are even remotely similar to Beneatha Younger. Her character is by far, the one that reaches out from the story for being genuine and worthy of relating to. Throughout the novel, Beneatha made a point of how she thinks what is inside a person that counts. She felt that other people (especially Mrs. Younger) needed to understand that she looks beneath the surface of people. On page 49 Beneatha wearily explains, “Oh , I just mean I couldn’t ever be serious about George. He’s-he’s so shallow.” Ruth replies by saying, ”He’s rich!” That is exactly Beneatha’s point. She does not want to be in a relationship with George simply because he can support her. However, beneatha, younger, beneatha’s, woman, ruth, page, novel, mrs, life, hair, even, character, women, views, very, strong, people, one, off, however, doctor, simply, should, inside, god, george, cuts, becoming, because, young, way, understand, throughout, things, surface, sun, sometimes, school, says, represents, relating, rare, raisin, questions, pride, prepared, point, mother’s, man