More money than the Younger family has ever imagined is due to come any day due to the passing of their patriarch. Now the decisions of how to use it to their best advantage are being fought about with Mama wanting to use it as a down payment on a real house in a suburb and some for her daughter's college as she dreams to be a doctor but her son wants to use it all on to go in with friends for a liquor store. His dreams and his vision of himself are as low as can be but things are about to change for the family...
A timeless story of a middle class family who struggles to make ends meet let alone try to better their situation for their children. It's easy to understand their hopes and dreams and frustrations. What can not be understated is the fact that this is a black family in Chicago during extreme racial segregation and prejudice. The thought of Benethea, becoming a doctor seems like a pipe dream to Walter Lee, the son. He is a chauffer for a well-to-do white man while Ruth, his wife, cleans houses and works in kitchens. This play focuses really on Walter's despair at this place in life but in the end there is a glimmer of hope that we all need to keep going and you have to hope that things will turn out well for this family.
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