A Raisin in the Sun s1

A Raisin in the Sun by______(Act 2, scene 3)

Vocabulary – Use a dictionary to define the following terms; be sure to use the appropriate definition: exuberant (110) – affirmation (117) –

facetiousness (120) – ludicrous (124) – forlornly (129) –

Characters – Define each character in terms of who he/she is in the play AND his/her personality.

Mr. LInder –

Bobo –

Reading Questions

1. What is the setting of the scene? 2. Why do you suppose Ruth feels “no ways tired” today? (110)

3. In what way(s) has Walter changed?

What do you think caused the changes?

4. Why would the family be surprised to see a white man at their door? (113)

5. Who is Mr. Linder? What is his job/responsibility with Clybourne Park? (115)

6. Which character catches on to Mr. Linder’s true intentions first? (115)

Why do you think this is the case?

7. What is the irony in Mr. Linder’s words: “-most of the trouble exists because people just don’t sit down and talk to each other…to understand the other fellow’s problem. The other guy’s point of view”? (116)

8. What is the irony in Mr. Linder’s words: “They’re not rich and fancy people; just hard- working, honest people who don’t really have much but those little homes and a dream of a kind of community they want to raise their children in”? (117)

9. Explain Beneatha’s comment, “This, friends, is the Welcoming Committee!” (page 118)

10. In what way to Ruth, Walter, and Beneatha break the news about Mr. Linder to Mama? (120)

What is Mama’s reaction? (120-121)

11. What does Ruth think is the white people’s true problem with coexisting with black neighbors? (121)

Do you think this still stands true today? Why or why not?

12. Beneatha says that Mr. Linder thinks “everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Christian fellowship.” Do you think her statement is accurate?

Explain your answer.

13. On page 121, Mama says, “Fixing my plant so it won’t get hurt none…” How can this line be taken to possess a second meaning?

14. What does Mama’s card mean by “To our own Mrs. Miniver”?

15. Who arrives at the Youngers’ apartment at the end of the scene? (125)

Why? (126-128) 16. What other catastrophic news does Walter give the family concerning the money? (129)

17. To whom is Mama referring when she says, “I seen him grow thin and old before he was forty…working and working and working like somebody else’s horse…killing himself”?

What is her point in making this reference?