Beneatha’s Choice In the year Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, was written women weren’t meant for anything more than taking care of home. Beneatha a main character in the play wants to be a doctor. Beneatha’s family wants her to get married. Beneatha is dating two men Joseph Asagai and George Murchison. George is a black man who comes from a family with money who wants Beneatha for show. Joseph is a college student from Africa, who cares for Beneatha. Beneatha shouldn’t marry either man. Beneatha shouldn’t marry George because he’s chauvinistic. For example, George tells Beneatha to go change, because they were going to a play not being in one. George then tells Beneatha that she shouldn’t be proud that she looks eccentric. George belittles Beneatha whenever they are together. George doesn’t care for Beneatha’s feelings or her dreams. Beneatha needs someone who will be understanding of her finding out who she is and her wanting to become a doctor. Beneatha doesn’t need a man who feels he is better just because he is a man. If Beneatha were to marry George, the women she is and …show more content…
Joseph concern is for Africa, what he can do for his country. In Act I Joseph plays on Beneatha’s emotions by telling her that her hair is mutilated. Beneatha then keeps pulling at her hair because she is bothered by this comment. If Joseph cared for Beneatha as he spoke, He would accept her as she is. Instead Joseph is trying to change her to benefit his self-image. Beneatha is naïve about Afrocentrism’s so therefore she is following what Joseph tells her is facts. Beneatha is lost in a world were men are the head, she wants to become a doctor, yet Beneatha has everyone telling her what she should or shouldn’t be doing. If Beneatha accepts Joseph proposal she will not only lose her family, but lose her focus on her dreams. In addition, Beneatha will be living for others as oppose to living for