The Raisin in the Sun

In The Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, I found that many of her uses of various literary devices helped show how some characters struggle in many ways. She used the displaying of conflicts in her characters of Mama and Walter very effectively.
I thought that the way that Mama spoke of the money coming to her in the mail showed that she had an internal conflict going on. It appeared that she was not sure how to spend the money that she was about to receive. The dialogue that she had with Ruth revealed to me that she had indeed been thinking about ways to spend the money, but not the way that she wanted to spend it quite yet.
The incorporation of an external conflict between Mama and Walter deemed itself intriguing. I found it intriguing mostly because I do not know exactly what mother son relationships were like in this time. So when Mama came at Walter angry this revealed a new side of the relationship. Instead of caring and forgiving Mama showed this new angry and disappointed side of herself to her son. "Quite without thinking about it, starts to beat him senselessly in the face(129), describes the emotions that Mama feels coming into action after her son loses all the money that had come from his fathers death.