Rebecca Parise Theatre 111 Professor LePine February 8 2017 Reflection Essay In order to make their plays stand out there are certain measures that playwrights tend to make. Lorraine Hansberry was very good at making not only her play, A Raisin in the Sun, standout, but she was also able to use diction and make this play into a beloved masterpiece. In this essay I will be talking about how some of the authors literary styles helped contribute to the success of her play A Raisin in the Sun. Although there are a lot of different elements that help contribute to the authors theme I am only going to be talking about three: plot, characters, and spectacle. In order to write or create a good play there are multiple elements of writing that need to go into it, like plot. The plot for A Raisin in the Sun is unique because it does not follow any particular plot structure. We talked about this during our discussion that this plot would look like a tree with branches or roots extending outward. This play has to do with a family of four who are all trying to follow their dreams; and because of this we get multiple different story lines …show more content…
The four main characters of A Raisin in the Sun are Mama, Ruth, Walter, and Beneatha. All of these characters are protagonists and they are also all round characters. Like I said before they all have hopes, dreams and desires that they yearn to achieve throughout their lives. Mama is the head of the household, while her daughter Beneatha is a college student who is trying to find herself. (Hansberry). Walter is a man who dreams big, while his wife Ruth is level headed and wants to leave this house (Hansberry). All of these characters have their flaws, but it is who they end up being that is important. These characters are here to provide messages for us about the theme, which is the importance of family, and that money is not all that