In
rejecting the idea of a happy ending,was both encouraging readers and viewers to understand her
play within the broader context of social changes in the 1950s and emphasizing that she did not
intend the play as a conventionalin which the loose ends are neatly tied up. The play is within
the realm ofin that many of the questions that arise in the play remain unanswered, and many of
the conflicts remain unresolved. The single act of moving to a safer neighborhood would not
answer or resolve all those things.
Regarding the specific issue of African
American families living in white neighborhoods, Hansberry drew on her own and her familys
experience in Chicagos Washington Park neighborhood. She wrote of this part of their lives in
her autobiography, . In addition, attacks on black families in such
situations were...
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