A Raisin in the Sun
...ther man and caring for his family, Walter is more concerned with becoming self-employed or at least in a management position without really thinking about the consequences which may be imposed upon his family by his needs and dreams. As seen later in the story Walter learns that for the overall good of the family he needs to set his dreams aside and pay attention to the family so that all may succeed. Lorraine Hansberry got these themes from personal experience. For example in “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” the theme of family values and morals is from Lorraine Hansberry’s personal life. She states “We were also vaguely taught certain vague absolutes: that we were better than no one but infinitely superior to everyone; that we were the products of the proudest and most mistreated of the races of man; that there was nothing enormously difficult about life; that one succeeded as a matter of course. And, above all, there were two things which were never to be betrayed: the family and the race.” Lorraine Hansberry put her personal views into A Raisin in the Sun. Many black authors and poets around the time of the depression had similar views and themes. They all seemed to have been taught family values and morals. For example in Langston Hughes short story “One Friday Morning” Nancy Lee is taught to be proud of her ancestry. “Nancy Lee was proud of being American, a Black American with blood out of Af...