Assimilation, is the act of submitting yourself and your culture to another that is seen as larger and more superior. Beneatha is a young college student who (out of the rest of the characters) provides an independent and ambitious perspective, as seen through her goal of becoming a doctor. During her life in this play she dates two very different men, George Murchison and Joseph Asagai. Hansberry through the book shows that George and Beneatha are almost opposites on their opinion on african-american culture, but her and Asagai both believe in self-determination whether it be believing in god or adapting to submissive to white culture.
Throughout the play Hansberry provides us with dialogue that not only reveals why Beneatha picked Asagai, but why she and George seemed to repel away from each other. George is a good-looking (as described by Beneatha herself) and rich for an african-american family, he is Beneatha’s boyfriend at the through a bit more than half of the book. The couple 's troubles are most prevalent and public when he picks her up from her apartment to take her to the cinema. After having been
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She has chosen Asagai because he is a free-thinker and someone who isn’t ashamed of where they originate, and for Beneatha, that means the world to her. So how does Hansberry help you understand why Beneatha chooses Asagai and rejects George? Well when it is not painstakingly obvious such as when Beneatha outright refuses the idea of marrying George, it is hinted at through the play with George’s tone of disapproval and Asagai’s tone of encouragement and motivation that makes it clear who will win the heart of Beneatha. Hansberry through the book shows that George and Beneatha are almost opposites on their opinion on african-american culture, but her and Asagai both believe in