Theatrical dramas bring a playwright's words to life by bringing together the characters, setting, sound and images. Some playwrights provide a high level of detail to the setting so that the reader or audience can imagine what the writer is trying to convey. However, writers also use imagery to complement the setting, giving the reader a deeper experience of the story. In the piece "A Raisin in the Sun", Lorraine Hansberry uses imagery to complement the decor of a small Chicago apartment by transforming an ordinary house plant into something that intertwines with the overall feeling of hope and hope. oppression felt throughout the piece. Hansberry opens the first scene by painting a gloomy picture of an apartment, describing the main living room as tired, dark and cramped with a "single window" through which a fragment of sunlight "breaks its way through" (1.1. 436). In this window resides a small sickly plant which symbolizes a measure of hope in the face of the oppression felt by the Youngers and many other black families during the post....