A Summary of a Review of 'A Raisin in the Sun'

In  1959, a critic named Brooks Atkinson reviewed the recently produced Broadway play by Lorraine Hansberry called ‘ A Raisin in the Sun’. Brooks summarizes the story and the characters personality and traits along with the setting and problem in the story. He then goes into more detail about the story’s characters and how the actors selected to be in the play were carefully chosen. Brooks goes on to say that ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ is like a Negro version of another play called ‘The Cherry Orchard’ because they both have to do with the environment the character’s in and how it affects their lives. He also adds that the play is ‘honest’ in that the actors act like real people and not like made up characters from pure imagination. Brooks also commends Ralph Alswang’s skill in making the setting, an apartment, in which the entire story takes place in and how it showed the family’s social status and tastes in culture. Brooks concludes with saying he enjoyed how Hansberry depicted such an intense subject as this with such simplicity that almost any person could watch and understand this play.