Notes on A Raisin in the Sun

- Act 1: Scene 1 starts with a description of the house the characters are living in.
- 4 characters are mentioned: Mama and her daughter Beneatha and her son Walter Lee and his wife Ruth
-All the characters live in the same house
- The setting is in Chicago's Southside and sometime between world war II and the present
- Travis is another character who lives in the house, he is Ruth's son
- Walter is another character and he is Walter lee's dad and Beneathas father, he is married to Lena/Mama.
- Ruth's age is about 30
- The story starts in the morning Ruth is making eggs and waking up her son Travis and she is talking with Walter about why he always smokes cigarettes before he eats in the morning
- While Travis is eating breakfast he gets in argument with his mom Ruth about money
- He needs 15 cents for school and his mom doesn't have it for him.
- This shows that the family is struggling financially which I feel is gonna be ones of themes of this play, because it represents the struggles families face when they are struggling financially.
Walter who is married to Lena