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Joseph Asagai is a college instructor and intellectual. He has just returned from a trip to Canada, and has suddenly dropped by the Younger apartment to see Beneatha. However, the family has been cleaning the apartment, and it is in disarray (but Asagai doesn’t seem to mind). He encourages Beneatha’s ambitions to be a doctor, but also wants her to understand her African ancestry, and so he brings her a present: traditional robes from Nigeria. In this scene, Asagai challenges Beneatha to reject
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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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