From the dialogs and the monologues in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, choose lines that represent the characters listed below best. Explain why you think the chosen lines are representative of the characters.
George
George is wealthy, self-confident, class conscious, and judgmental.
(Nastily) Let’s face it, baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass huts! (Act II, scene i)
GEORGE (To BENEATHA) Look honey, we’re going to the theatre—we’re not going to be in it … so go change, huh?
(BENEATHA looks at him and slowly, ceremoniously, lifts her hands and pulls off the headdress. Her hair is close-cropped and unstraightened. GEORGE freezes mid-sentence and RUTH’S eyes all but fall out of her head)
GEORGE It’s an eight-thirty curtain. That’s just Chicago, though. In New York standard curtain time is eight forty.
(He is rather proud of this knowledge)
A Raisin in the Sun
