Raisin_In_The_Sun

Raisin In The Sun Symbolism: A Raisin in the Sun The play, A Raisin in the Sun, is all about dreams that are deferred. Everyone in the play has a dream that they wish to achieve. Some are more selfish than others, but they all want to be able to provide good things for their family. The author, Lorraine Hansberry, used objects, which are otherwise unimportant, to symbolize other objects or meanings that she wanted the readers to be sure to understand. There were many symbols used throughout the play. Some of them were obvious but some of them were not. It is up to the individual reader to decide which objects are symbols and which ones are not. The play begins with the family eagerly waiting for a check of $10,000.00 to come in the day’s mail. The money is from the life insurance of Lena’s husband who has passed away. Lena and her family each have their own ideas for what to do with the money. Walter, who doesn’t know that his wife Ruth is pregnant, only dreams of being rich like the white men he passes on the streets. He wants to invest the money in a liquor store along with his friends family, money, new, walter, life, plant, mama, house, play, mama’s, one, home, dreams, finally, big, once, move, loving, grow, back, worked, willy, tells, symbols, symbolized, sun, space, ruth, raisin, provide, pregnant, payment, out, objects, neighborhood, hard