A raisin in the sun

    What are strategies Ms. Younger uses to build her son (Walter Lee, Jr.) and daughter (Benetha) and her daughter ter-in-law (Ruth)?

Great Depression

As during the Great Depression, women’s behavior and ideas about gender changed during the War. Did you observe examples of traditional ideas about gender continuing during the 1940s? Looking ahead, do you see WWII as having a conservative or liberatory impact...