A RAISIN IN THE SUN

A RAISIN IN THE SUN By: Lorraine Hansberry To Mama: in gratitude for the dream What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a RAISIN in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? -Langston Hughes Act I Scene One: Friday morning. Scene Two: The following morning. Act II Scene One: Later, the same day. Scene Two : Friday night, a few weeks later. Scene Three: Moving day, one week later. Act III An hour later. ACT I SCENE ONE The YOUNGER living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of inde- structible contradictions to this state of being. Its furnish- ings are typical and undistinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years and they are tired. Still, we can see that at some time, a time probably no longer remembered by the family {except perhaps for MAMA), the furnishings of this room were actually selected with care and love and even hope and brought to this apartment and arranged with taste and pride.}

a madman! And be late too! (She waits, at the end of patience) Walter Lee it's time for you to GET UP! (She waits another second and then starts to go into the bedroom, but is apparently satisfied that her husband has begun to get up. She stops, pulls the door to, and returns to the kitchen area. She wipes her face with a moist cloth and runs her

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