Racisms throughout Chicago

The Younger family in there living room from wikipedia

My initial thoughts when I learned I would have to read a 40-page play was pure terror. I have never been one to enjoy long plays and tend to find them confusing and boring. When I began to read A Raisin in the Sun I was pleasantly surprised and found myself excited to read more and curious on what was going to happen next for the Younger family. The play begins by setting the scene in the Younger family apartment that is shared by many families. This is a worn down place that they cannot wait to get out of but have been stuck for countless years due to financial issues. The family is a colored family that has very minimal paying jobs and truly must live paycheck to paycheck. We find this out very quickly in the beginning of the film when Ruth and Walters son Travis asks for 50 cents and it is a large commotion to give him the money. Throughout the play Ruth and Walter face several disagreements and fights. At a certain point it seems the two were going to separate and would not last in a relationship any longer.

Walter has a dream of opening a liquor store and no one will back up his dream or support him. Until, one-day Momma, Walters mother decides to purchase a home in Clybourn Park in Chicago. Walter becomes overjoyed and turns into a new motivated man. Also, his mother gave him the rest of the $10,000 not used on the home to invest in his own manner and for him to take care of.  What happens next is unforeseen and extremely unfortunate. Walter chooses to invest the money with a man named Willy to purchase a liquor store. But, Willy runs away with the money leaving the family with nothing. To make matters more confusing a man from a Clybourn Park neighborhood group stops by to offer money for the house purchased in Clybourn along with extra cash. These people did not want colored people living in their area. A hard decision for the family but they stuck to their will and denied the offer.