How is Mr. Lindner from Clybourne Park significant as a minor character in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun?

may be a
minor character in s , but his brief scene is integral to the plays theme.  In Act II, Scene
III, the character of Lindner is a weak, timid Caucasian sent by the local homeowners
association where the Younger family plans to move to try and convince the African-American
family to not relocate there.  As the leader of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association,
Lindner is given the responsibility for bribing , ,and Mama to sale their newly-purchased
property in the lower-middle-class and entirely white community €“ a particularly ironic tasking
given that he is also chairman of the New Neighbors Orientation Committee, which welcomes new
families or, as a visibly uncomfortable Lindner explains to the Youngers while sitting in their
living room:

Well €“ its what you might call a sort of
welcoming committee, I guess.  I mean they, we €“ Im the chairman of the committee €“ go around
and see the new people who move into the neighborhood and sort of give them the lowdown on the
way we do things out in Clybourne Park.

As Lindner
continues to timidly explain the purpose of his visit, he repeatedly refers to the Youngers as
you people in such a way that he is clearly categorizing them in a negative manner.  As he
gradually gets to the point of the meeting, it becomes increasingly clear to Walter and his
family that Lindner is here to discourage them from moving to Clybourne Park.  As Lindner
proceeds to make his point, he hints at possible problems should the Youngers proceed with their
plans:

I am sure you people must be aware of the some of
the incidents which have happened in various part so the city when colored people have moved
into certain areas . . .

As he continues in this vein,
Lindner inches closer to the bottom line:

. . . at the
moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take
more of a common interest in the community, when they share a common background. . .It is a
matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the
happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their
own communities.

Karl Lindner is a
minor character in A Raisin in the Sun.  What he represents, however, is the enormity of the
weight on Walters shoulders as he desperately tries to improve his familys
lot.