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With the historical lens, this scene represents the 1950s many ways. During this time the economy was booming snd people were becoming middle class and moving to suburbs. This is not represented so far in this book. However, the fact that segregation was being debated on and rights of black people in general is very prevalent through the story. Mama mentions that people aren’t appreciating the hard work her generation did for their rights. This ties into the historical context because it shows minorities were aspiring for more during this time, with all the progress in the economy and society.

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I think that Beneatha's psychological state in the play determines the action of the play because it highlights the age and cultural differences between her and her family, which leads to conflicts and tensions. Beneatha's desire to explore her African heritage and become a doctor conflicts with her family's traditional values and their focus on financial stability. This leads to arguments and tension within the family.

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Through a psychoanalytic lens I think that the state of Walter has a huge influence on the play as well as the rest of the characters. Walter has a huge attachment to the money and focuses on nothing and no one else besides it. He pushes everyone aside and invalidates everyone else’s hard work and feels like he’s the only one that cares. The main example of this is when Walter comes home after the check came. He immediately starts yelling at both Mama and Ruth saying that no one is listening to me even when they try talking to him in a calm manner. This shows how Walter is very forward and aggressive in getting what he wants and specifically with this money.

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Through a historical lenses, you can see how limited the young family feels to succeed in the world. They make many comments in how people of their skin color can’t do certain things. This expresses the struggles that black peoples faced during the timing of the book, in which discrimination and racism was much too occurring.

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When looking at Act 1 of The Raisin in The Sun through a psychoanalysis lens I can see that Beneatha and Walters actions in the play are driven by the loss of their father. Both siblings have high hopes and dreams for their futures as one wants to be a doctor and the other an entrepreneur. In a conversation between Lena (Mama) and Ruth it is seen that Beneatha and Walter inherited this trait from their father who was described as a “dreamer”. Now that he has died, their ambition is amplified to fill up his absence. This is because of the attachment theory which states that there are four different attachment styles. In this situation Beneatha and Walter are exhibiting the disorganized attachment as they are seem okay sometimes and other times show distress because of the absence of their parent.

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Using an historical lens, this scene represents the norms of the time it was written because in the scene when Mama was buying apples, she asked for the 10 freshest apples that they have but gave her some with worm holes in it. She later saw someone who was white ask for the same thing and they got the apples without any damage. This represents the historic norm of historical backdrop where the colored were looked down upon and were discriminated against the whites.

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Beneatha's psychological state in Raisin in the Sun determines the action of the play because it highlights the generational and cultural differences between her and her family, which leads to conflicts and tensions. Beneatha's desire to explore her African heritage and become a doctor conflicts with her family's traditional values and their focus on financial stability. This leads to arguments and tension within the family.

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In scene one act one when looking through a psychoanalytic lense you can see that Ruth could represent anxiety in a way that she is always stressing over something. Mama tells Ruth to “just relax” because she knows Ruth is going through a pregnancy and feeling stressed. On the other hand, Beneatha could represent ADHD because she can’t really sit still and focus on one thing. When she is with Asagai she always wants to be the one talking.

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Looking through a psychoanalytical lens, all throughout scene I Walter lashes out and says things without thinking. He acts out through his id. The id seeks instant gratification for our wants and needs, and if the needs are not met then the person gets anxious, tense or angry. Like in scene ii, right as Walter gets home he wants to see the check and talk about his plans for the liquor store. Mama tries to sit him down and talk with Ruth, about her pregnancy which he doesn’t know about yet, but he continues to interrupt and won’t listen to either of them. He’s so focused on his own issues he won’t even listen to his wife and proceeded to yell and get angry with them both. Almost every time he has been in the room throughout the play so far, there’s a constant tension among them about money and the liquor store, Walter lashes out often and thinks nobody listens.

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When looking at act one through a historical lens you’re able to see how people of color, specifically black people, were treated during this time period. When Mama is at the grocery store looking for apples, the white worker gives the white woman the better batch of apples and gives mama the rotten apples. This shows the cultural norms of this time period and how were white people were treated as superior.

Meredith Larson
Period 5

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In this scene looking through a psychoanalytic lens when Walter comes home from work and gets mad at Mama because she says that they can’t take the check it shows a prime example of behaviorism. Behaviorism happens when human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings. Behaviorism relates to this story because him showing this anger could eventually lead to him losing Ruth .

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Through a psychoanalytic lens, when Walter Lee comes home from work on the day that Mama gets the check, he lashes out when Mama tells him that he can’t use the money for the liquor store. This is an example of behaviorism, behaviorism suggests that all behaviors are acquired through a conditioning process. Mama said that Walter Lee has been slowly acting more and more like that and if he continues he’s going to lose Ruth. The psychological state of one character determines the situation if that person has a big impact of a larger presence than all the other characters.

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In this scene looking through the matrix lens, we can recognize how excited Beneatha is to finally see Asagai. He surprises her with gifts, which she expresses excitement by squeeling in disbelief over the things he bought her. Her excitement shows how much she values the gifts he gave her, especially because of their class status. Being in the working class they aren’t always able to afford all the wants they have, with the needs they have to provide for. This scene shows the appreciation of money that was spent for something that is meaningful to her.

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I think Beneatha is struggling with self understanding. She thinks she knows what she wants and needs but that is only her conscious. She has tapped into her unconscious cause a deeper version of distress and discomfort. Causing false emotions to be shared with others around her.

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This scene represents the historical context and racial bias of the time the story takes place. For example, in the grocery store Lena is treated rudely and given bad food. We can see the racial bias as Lena is treated poorly while a white woman who arrived at the store after Lena did, however she is immediately helped by a store clerk and given the best food.

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Thinking from a psychoanalysis standpoint, I believe that Ruth is unconsciously putting herself under an incredible amount of pressure. While she’s conscious of the amount of work she’s taking on, I don’t believe she’s aware of the standard she’s holding herself to. By putting so much pressure on herself, she’s unconsciously putting the same stress on those around her. She’s holding them —and herself— to a standard they’re highly unlikely to meet. This adds an uneasy feeling to the story, as if they’re predetermined to fail.

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Scarlett Soukkavong

The historical lenses in the book it states it in the book when Mama says “Oh, that’s the little country that was founded by slaves way back…” When Beneatha says the name of the guy from who she is seeing who’s name is Asagai, Joseph who is from Nigeria but Mama was just giving historical backdrop from Liberia. Mama doesn’t know the differences between the other places because she thinks it’s the same thing/ same place. Where Nigeria and Liberia is two different places and Mama doesn’t know how to tell the difference between the two.

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From the psychoanalytic lense. In act one Ruth asks mama what she’s gonna do with the money.mama says she doesn’t know what she’s gonna do with it. Ruth tells her to go to Europe. But mama says do I look like a white woman. This is an example of behaviorism she grew up with the notion that black women and or men can’t go one big streamliners and travel the world. Which led her to believe that she can’t travel to Europe.

Malik Maxamed
4th

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I think mama holds an unseen power in this scene because she has knowledge about the working class. When she talks about her late husband and his struggles she says, “Honey, Big Walter would come in here some nights back then and slump down on that couch there and just look at the rug, and look at me and look at the rug and then look back at me and I’d know he was down then… really down.” She’s giving Ruth a specific story to show her that not everyone is perfect off. She uses her personal story and I think she uses symbolism of the rug as the idea that something as simple as a rug can be hard to upgrade and it shows the idea that their life is a struggle.

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I believe beneatha is sort of dependent on mama. You can see this example in the attachment theory ,because beneatha is so attached and dependent of her mom because she does the things she wants to do without regard of poverty, this example can be seen when he told Ruth she stated guitar lessons and this can also be shown in the seen she was arguing with Walter and Walter brought up the idea of why did she want to be a doctor knowing her family income is unsuitable to sustain her lifestyle ir her future career

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From the historical lense, this scene represents the norms of the time it was written because in the scene when Asagai and Beneatha were speaking about how she felt that there should be more of a connection/feeling between a man and a woman and that what they have isn’t enough yet, he responds with “For a woman it should be enough”. Back in the time frame this was written woman were expected to settle and listen to their husbands, this text represents how that norm is being demonstrated in this act.

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In this scene, from the historical lens it describes the gender roles of people during that time period. When asagai claims they can only have 1 feeling and beneatha goes outrageous and he says that “all women are the Same” and “for a women it should be enough”. But in reality his information comes from novels that men write and not how women express their feelings. Therefore gender roles and how men try and control everything and think they are right when they don’t know the other side of the story play a role in the scene of the story.

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Mrs. Kuhn-Period 4                                                 I think Walter Lee is suffering from PTSD. This influences others because his fixation over money/power/security, prevents him from having any deep or meaningful relationships within his own family. We see this when he speaks to Ruth about his business proposition...he says, "...." (67).      

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Mrs. Kuhn-Period 4                                                 I think Walter Lee is suffering from PTSD. This influences others because his fixation over money/power/security, prevents him from having any deep or meaningful relationships within his own family. We see this when he speaks to Ruth about his business proposition...he says, "...." (67).      