A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry is a play about a poor black family's strive for survival. It takes place in the poor South side of Chicago after World War II, around 1959. The Youngers, Lena, mother of Walter Lee and Beneatha, mother-in-law to Ruth and grandmother to Travis, live in a two bedroom upstairs apartment. Having her husband passed away, Lena receives a ten thousand-dollar life insurance check. Lena uses part of her money for a down payment on a house in a white neighborhood called Clybourne Park. This made her son Walter angry; to make things right she gave him the rest of the money asking him to put part of it in the bank for Beneatha's education. Walter decides to invest all of the money in a liquor store with two partners instead, think he could quadruple the investment. One day, a white...