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Start: ASAGAI: Hello, Alaiyo-- BENEATH...

A Raisin in the Sun

Beneatha Younger Joseph Asagai

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ASAGAI: Hello, Alaiyo--

BENEATHA: Hello--

(Long pause as she stands paralyzed, all her “maturity” suddenly dissolved to jello. Finally, as he peers around her:)

Well--come in. And please excuse everything. My mother was very upset about the place looking like this.

[... … …]

End:

BENEATHA: (angrily) Yuk, yuk, yuk!

ASAGAI: It’s how you can be sure that the world’s most liberated women are not liberated at all. You all talk about it too much!

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, Samuel French, 1984, pp.49-53.

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