In the play "A Raisin in the Sun," the main conflict occurs when a family receives insurance money from the death of their father and has to decide what to do with it. Although most members pressure "Mama" to do something specific with the money, Beneatha believes that Mama should do whatever she pleases. Beneatha is a college student, and throughout the play she demonstrates great ambition. Her main struggle is trying to form her identity away from the men in her life. Her perspective is also significant because of her decision to rediscover her African roots.
The foul odor that caused the narrator and Thompson to flee into the cold is the Limburger Cheese. Of course they thought it was the rotting corpse but the pine box did not contain a dead body, instead inside were a bunch of guns.
A rift between the king and Parliament disrupted Great Britain during the reign of King George V. He didn't listen to it and did what he wanted, and he even dismissed the Parliament for a while.
The function of the gerund phrase <em>crying about our problems </em>in this sentence is that of a subject of the sentence. Who/what will not solve problems? Crying about them.
