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You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but yo...

Walter Lee Younger

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act II, Scene 2
Time & Place
Chicago’s Southside, 1950s, The Younger’s Apartment
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction...a business transaction that’s going to change our lives...That’s how come one day when you ‘bout seventeen years old I’ll come home and I’ll be pretty tired, you know what I mean, after a day of conferences and secretaries getting things wrong the way they do...’

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And--and I’ll say, all right son--it’s your seventeenth birthday, what is it you’ve decided?...just tell me where you want to go to school and you’ll go. Just tell me, what it is you want to be==Yessir! You just name it, son...and I hand you the world!

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, Samuel French, 1984, pp. 95.

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