Question Five. A Raisin in the Sun. 3

     Much of the issues that occurred in the play dealt with the disagreements between beliefs and morals.  Mama was the righteous, good heart-ed woman that tried to make all issues between people history.  Walter, the less righteous and more free lanced individual was always looking to make a buck regardless of what Mama thought about it.  Finally, Beneatha is portrayed as the typical teenager that is trying to make herself useful through her profession.  Every single one of these people had a type of generation gap between them.  This generation gap is what caused many of the feuds that occurred. Mamma believed that Walter's plans to open a liquor store were deplorable, but because Walter was in the modern world, he never opened his mind to the thought that in his mother's generation, that profession may not have been honorable.  Mama grew up in a time that promoted honest working and honest money making.  Walter views the world as a "dog-eat-dog" world where to survive, one must do whatever is required. Finally, Beneatha is an educated young girl who tends to go along with societies rejection of faith and the rules.  Consistently throughout Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun, Beneathe rejects her families beliefs and defies rules set down by her mother. "...and God is just one idea I don't accept"(Hansberry, 51).