The correct answer is <em><u>option C.</u></em> The most important symbol in "A Raisin in the Sun" is mama's plant. The play, written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959, narrates the story of a black family that lives in Chicago, and that tries against all odds to become better, after the father dies and they get an insurance payment.
In the play, mama's plant is used by the author to represent the family itself, and how mama gives all her attention and care to the things she loves, like th plant and her family. The plant symbolizes the struggles that the family has been faced against, and how with perseverance, the family and the plant, will survive.
