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A Generation Gap in a Raisin in the Sun

There is a big generation gap in the book A Raisin in the Sun. There are three different generations all living in the same old cramped apartment. The family has been living in the apartment for at least forty years and has never been able to own their home.
With this generation gap there is quite a lot of arguments and complaining. Walter and Ruth get into conflicts all of the time, and then there is Walter and Mama with their struggle for the money. These are just some of the conflicts in this story. The generation gap poses problems between Mama, Walter, and Beneatha.
Mama has stuck to her same values ever since she was a child. She is the oldest women in the apartment, and is the wisest. She controls the household at the beginning of the play but then hands her control down to Walter by giving him the rest of the insurance money. Mama is stuck to the values of blacks from when they were slaves back in the last 1800's. She is a woman......

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