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Through her portrayal of Beneatha's struggles of pursuing a career as a doctor, Lorraine Hansberry reveals the barriers that many women have faced when attempting to break away from the stereotypical female.  Though much has improved since the release of A Raisin in the Sun, the effects of sexism still linger, and the stereotypes remain.

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By including scenes of her family dissuading Beneatha not to follow her dream of becoming a doctor, Lorraine Hansberry starts a conversation about the expectation of a woman's life in the 1950s. Men were the designated "providers" for the family, while women were expected to cook, clean, and take care of children. In her acclaimed play, A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry reveals the barriers a black woman faces in order to progress in society.

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Lorraine Hansberry's development of Beneatha in Raisin in the Sun depicts the sexist standards society strived to conform women into and the limited opportunities for them in the workforce, paritcularly for those in minority groups. Despite the enourmous amount of progress made so far in erasing these unfair standards, they are still dismissively embedded and normalized in women's careers and education today.

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Through the portrayal of Beneatha, Lorraine Hansberry expresses the sexism and stigma against women. Though much has improved since Hansberry wrote A Rasin in the Sun, women still face discrimination today.

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In the raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Walter lee is the perfect description of a colored man in the 1950s. She portrays Walter with poverty to portray how African Americans did not have equal opportunities that white men did in the 1950s. She also showed how hard it was for African Americans to get a good job.

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Through her portrayal of Walter Lee's struggle in poverty, Lorraine Hansberry reveals that many African Americans lived through poverty. Good jobs were hard to get due to racism and inequality. Since A Raisin in the Sun has been released, the standards for which a good job requires has changed. Although, there are still a large number of African Americans the struggle.

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Lorraine Hansberry uses Beneatha's situation of struggling to become a doctor, to portray the barriers African American women face when trying to be successful in male dominated jobs. Even though the problem has improved since Hansberry has written A Raisin in the Sun, women are still brought upon by doubt and hesitation from society when trying to become doctors.

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Through Lorraine Hansberry's portrayal of Walter Lee struggling with the affects poverty on his family she reveals that many african americans did not have equal oppurtunities. Though it has been a while since the poem A Raisin In The Sun was written many African Americans still struggle to earn enough money to provide for their families in America

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In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Walter Lee a man struggling to provide for his family is a perfect example of a colored man stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty.  This social issue still exists in the world today, with many colored people still struggling to get out of their economic hardships.

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Through Lorraine Hansberry’s portrayal of Walter Lee's struggle to find a high-paying job to give him enough money to by a liqour store reveals the dicrimination barriars that many African-Americans faced when trying to be hired for a high paying job. Though much has improved since Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, many people of color still face discrimation when applying for higher paying jobs in certain areas.

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By demonstrating how Beneatha’s dream to go to medical school and become a doctor is almost unattainable due to the family’s lack of money and her background as an African American woman, Lorraine Hansberry reveals how there was, and still remains today, a racial barrier for people of color to apply for higher-income jobs or get a more certified education.

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In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine uses Mama's attempts to keep her family happy to also reveal the struggle of having a family while also struggling in poverty. Due to the current situation, poverty rates in the U.S. have been at an all-time high.

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Lorraine Hansberry's portrayal of Walter Lee's financial and educational barrier in applying for a higher-income job is still found within many African Americans who struggle to meet today's economic standards.

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In Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun, Beneathas journey of becoming doctor and going into medical school, reveals the struggles many minority women face with racism, misogyny and sexism in higher educated careers. Though much has improved since Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, these prejudices of women are still deeply entangled within America, making it very hard for minority women to get a self sufficient job.

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Through Lorraine Hansberry’s portrayal of Beneatha goals of  being a doctor and going to medical school, she shows the sexism and misogyny against women and the stigma of women being independent. Though much has improved since the release of A Raisin in the Sun, many women, and especially women of color, still face descrimination and a harder time getting a self sufficient job, and many still have the belief that women belong in the house and need a husband.