Mama Younger In Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

As terror arose in the Younger house of southside Chicago, events just seemed to get worse and worse. The house, including everybody in it, slowly begins to fall apart, but as Mama Younger says “There is always something left to love. If you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.” Leanne Hansberry does a wonderful job of allowing symbols such as Mama’s plant to be seen. Though the family is disintegrating, she wants desperately to keep it going as they are just one wrong step away from death. Every day Mama shows the family love and care but much like the plant, nobody sees any growth or progress. Through the affinity of Mama’s plant, A Raisin In The Sun opens the reader's mind by showing how love and affection can impact the people

Mrs. Younger is one of the few hard-working black women during this time with no tolerance for foolishness. However, she is very forgiving and has no doubt dedicated her life to her family and reaching not only her own dreams, but also those of her children. Mama lets into the fact that sometimes her children frightened her, yet, she is still a sympathetic, giving person despite the anguish of her situation. Throughout the story, Lena’s connection with her children is a massive struggle when it comes to the obsessions with money and lack of faith and hope. Her patience with her family doesn’t always show when she speaks to her children [Hansberry 21]. Nonetheless, Mamas care toward her dying plant represents all that we need to know about how she attempts to ceaselessly satisfy the people around her [Hansberry 13]. The plant in the window gets unconditional love just like her family, however both lack the resources needed to mature in the best ways possible. Rather than give up on her family’s dreams, Mama does everything in her power to never lose faith in hopes that one day it will thrive from all of the blood, sweat, and tears put into the final dream. Lena’s loyalty is of one that is incredibly hard to find especially in the southern side of Chicago during this time. During the final lines of the play, Mama is shown taking a special kind of pride in her children and like the weed-like plant in the apartment, they are far from perfect but newborn hope enters the Younger family along with achieved dreams after years of