A Raisin in the Sun Film Review

A Raisin in the Sun is a movie made in 1961, but it is set in the short years after WWII. The grandmother is getting a check, and her son, Walter, only cares about the money she might give him. Throughout the movie, there is a lot of tension and stress between everyone living in the house because they are poor. At one point Walter says, “Goes to show how much women know about the world. Nothin’ gonna happen unless someone gets paid off.” This is just one example of the belittling things he says to his wife. Then later, to his sister, Walter says that she should go be a nurse instead of a doctor, like other women, or just get married and shut up. If women were treated like this in movies, I can’t imagine how they were treated in real life. There was also a little bit of the “rebellious teen” stereotype being represented by the sister. She was 20 and had a bunch of different expensive hobbies even though they were poor and she kind of just did whatever she wanted. She also wanted to get married to some guy and move to Africa with him. I’m glad the movie had a happy ending, it kind of went to show that they realized money isn’t actually the most important thing, family is.