Vices and Virtues in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Su

The characters in Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun are Universal in their Attempts to achieve their dreams. They are like every man and woman in that they have vices as well as virtues (Driver 182). In fact, they are “attractive and convincingly real people” (Miller 188).

Lorraine Hansberry’s success with her characters is, I think, accomplished through her ability to make us become very interested in every one of them from the beginning, and as each assumes his identity the interest is consistently maintained. Each person is clearly individualized and none are able to dominate others (Miller 188).

One of the characters who is individualized is Ruth, she brings peace to the house all the time. Even when things are in a critical situation, she is always there to assist everyone. But Ruth has weaknesses too, she gets carried away by their economic situation and this leads her to plan an abortion.

The play is a problem play, and the problem is blackness

Lena does not accept the reality of what’s around her or the world where se lives. Walter Lee does but the reality still exist accepted or not for both of them (France 185). She encourages her daughter and changes her mind about God. Her strengths make her do the right decision when she decides to invest the money on their new house. The money that was also supposed to pay for Beneatha’s school, and to fulfill her son’s dream.

Beneatha has pride in her person, during the play she shows and expresses her pride in various ways. The struggle and the pressure from her mother makes her express that pride in an ignorant way. Although Beneatha knows that she was raised under a strong Christian Religion, she makes a mistake when she says that “God does not makes miracles, humans make miracles”. And this makes a strong impact on her mother, Lena.

The play was about Walter Lee. Lena’s son. Walter Lee and his dream of “being somebody” were corrupted by the money and the opportunity of make of himself a man! It was his dream, and it was all he had! (Davis 185). He had some vices as well as virtues. All the confidence was resting in his hands when he gave away the mo

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