A Raisin in the Sun / Lorraine Hansberry / question 5

There is a large gap between the different parts of the family.  Mama and Big Walter were living during the civil rights movement.  Mama remembers this and thinks having a job and dignity are the most important things to have.  This is shoed by her statement to Walter.  “I’m looking at you. You a good-looking boy. You got a job, a nice wife, a fine boy and” (Hansberry 475).  Walter and Beneatha think of money as a necessary part of live. They also think of it as the main goal in life.   The two different generations value different thing more than others.  They each think of something different as the most important thing to strive for in life.  This differents in goals create a rift in the topic of most of their conversations which differ and seem to oppose each other.  The social norms of different generations create a rift in their communication to each other.