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Plot, Structure, and Conflict
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A Raisin in the Sun
Plot, Structure and Conflict
Climax
Act II Scene 3
- Plot
- Mr. Lindner tries to get them to sell the house
- Walter's money was stolen by Willy
- Mama reacts angrily to the situation
- Conflict
- Walter chose his dream over his family
- Serves as a turning point to the story
Falling Action
Act III
Rising Action
Structure
Act I Scene 2 - Act II Scene 2
How is the play organized?
- Plot
- Asagai tells Beneatha to come to Africa
- Mama begins to reconsider moving
- Walter breaks down
- Lindner comes back again
- Conflict
- Beneatha vs. herself: Search for identity
- Conflict escalates
- Walter begins to solve his conflict
- Conflict
- Beneatha vs. herself: Search for identity
- Dream vs. Family: Which should Walter put first?
- Conflict begins to escalate
- Mama vs. Mrs. Johnson: Who is the better matriarch?
- Three Acts
- Act I: Two Scenes
- Act II: Three Scenes
- Act III: One Scene
Rising Action
Act I Scene 2 - Act II Scene 2
Exposition
Act I, Scene 1
- Plot
- Asagai arrives and talks with Beneatha
- Ruth tells Walter about her pregnancy
- Mama pays for the house in Clybourne Park
- Mrs. Johnson tries to convince the Youngers to leave
- Plot:
- Younger family preps for a normal day
- Ruth, Travis, Walter, Beneatha and Mama introduced
- Mama and Ruth unsympathetic towards Walter's dream
- Walter and Beneatha argue
- Mama punishes Beneatha for blasphemy
- Ruth faints
- Conflict
- Dream vs. Family: Who should Walter put first?
Resolution/Denouement
End of Act III
- Plot
- Walter finally realizes his mistake and decides to keep the house
- Beneatha decides to dump both Asagai and Murchinson
- The Younger family begins to move
- Conflict
- Walter resolved the conflict by choosing his family
- Beneatha decided to discover herself without the need of a male companion
- "Happy ending"
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