Mama says to Walter, "You aint satisfied or proud of nothing we done. I mean that you had a home . . . that you dont have to ride to work on the...

Reading
or viewing from the perspective of the 21st century, we have the advantage
of knowing what changes occurred in the United States since the mid 1940s€“late 1950s, when the
play is set.wrote it in 1958.Younger, Jr., is 35 years old in the play, so he was already an
adult when many of those changes happened. One interesting aspect of Hansberrys play is that
thedo not neatly fit into generations.is 15 years younger than her brother, and there are clear
differences between them. In many ways, she has more in common with her nephew, who is only 10
years younger than she is.

While many of the major advances of the Civil
Rights Movement happened in the 1960s, they did not come out of a void. In her mention of no
longer sitting in the back of the streetcar, Mama is referring to the...

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