Beneatha's Personality in 'A Raisin in The Sun'

In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”, Beneatha Younger is a symbol for hope as she doesn’t allow the systematic racism and oppression present during the 1950s to affect her hunger for knowledge and status. By challenging what’s expected of her and questioning the traditional sex roles characters are prone of playing in to, she signifies the mark of a new area that promotoes unrivaled freedom amongst women in the alleged “silent generation.” 

Bennie is unreasonable about the obstructions that compromise her fantasy of becoming a doctor; in particular, her societal position, race, and sexual orientation. She will not recognize the truth that numerous individuals share Walter's sentiment that she ought to either get hitched or be a medical caretaker like other ladies. Bennie's defeat is her appreciation for the eccentric. It causes her disappointment and powers her fantasies to fade on the rack of impossibility. The explanation behind why her fantasy can so easily be stopped is simply the difference in how she views herself versus how others view her. She is continually looking for approaches to communicate in light of the fact that she is under the bogus impression that she can get to all the world brings to the table. The way of life during that time compels her into generalizations that miss the mark concerning her dreams.

Bennie experiences a presumption and an obliviousness about her fantasies. She has certainty that her fantasy will be thought about (for example she anticipates that Mama should put a portion of the protection cash toward her training). Despite the fact that she safeguards herself by asserting she never requests anything, the propagation of different and complex dreams shows her refusal as far as possible on her future. Likewise, as Walter brings up, there is a 'line among asking and simply tolerating', and she is clearly prepared to take what is offered to her. She rushes to see numerous things as a danger to her fantasy incorporating Walter's lack of regard with the cash and fixation on his own fantasies, the coming infant that will require a further division of the family's advantages, and the desires to absorb. It is significant for her to set her fantasies high since training opens entryways and gives regard as proven by their neighbor, Mrs. Johnson, alluding to her as the 'just one in the family to make a big deal about herself'.

Before the finish of the play, there is no solid conclusion to Beneatha's battle for personality, which is likely purposeful. In Act III, Asagai proposes to Beneatha and requests that her arrival to Africa with him. She communicates intrigue however doesn't solidly choose anything by the finish of the play. 'Such a large number of things—an excessive number of things have happened today,' Beneatha says, 'I should plunk down and think. I don't have a clue what I feel about anything right this moment'. 

Hansberry is passing on the silly idea of asking African Americans to pick one of two unattainable beliefs: dismissing their possess culture or completely epitomizing a remote one. By indicating Beneatha getting 'completely turned inside out' after Asagai's proposition and precluding any conclusion to this perplexity, Hansberry shows that there is no approach to settle on a solid choice somehow. The opportunity of African Americans to pick what they need to do transcends all. Beneatha's decision to fix her hair doesn't make her an assimilationist, and her decision to grasp Nigerian music doesn't make her an Afrocentrist. By setting Beneatha in the middle assimilationism and Afrocentrism, Hansberry is by all accounts making a case that African Americans can exist between these two boundaries.