s play
about a low-income African American family struggling to better itself in a predominantly white
and racist world contrasts the intellectual underpinnings of those members of the family who
lack formal education (especially the main , , and culturally conservative Mama) with those who
represent higher levels of academic achievement but who subscribe to vastly different
perspectives on racial relations (mainlyand George). This contrast is a major component of
and is nowhere better exhibited than in the brief exchange between Walter
and George in act 2, scene 1, in which George, exiting the Younger family apartment with
Beneatha, addresses Walter as Prometheus.
Prometheus is a figure from
Greek mythology, a Titan who famously created humans and who, unforgivably, gave to his creation
the instrument of fire....
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