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When Walter Lee’s father, Big Walter dies, the family receives a $10,000 life insurance check and with that money the Younger’s move into Clybourne Park, a white neighborhood, Lorraine Hansberry’s family also moved into a white neighborhood, Washington Park, on 6140 S. Rhodes Avenue; Hansberry could have possibly had this in mind while writing this story.
Lorraine Hansberry was well off financially for African Americans at the time, let alone all races during the great depression, so she never really got a feel for what living poor was like but Hansberry did see many poor children and this could be a factor for writing the play about the Younger family with their many financial struggles, like not even being able to have their own shower; she
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