A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry • 1959
Devastation Rating
poverty injustice literary fiction family
Our Take
The Younger family has a dream and the dream is modest and the world still tries to take it. Hansberry writes about aspiration and the specific cruelty of systemic barriers with precision that makes the play feel contemporary in ways it should not still be. Walter Lee's final stand is both triumph and compromise.
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