In a raisin in tha sun who is beneatha?

Answer 1

Beneatha is Mama's daughter and Walter's sister. She is more educated than the rest of the family and they think that she is proud and kind of demanding. Asagai wants to marry her and take her to Africa, where he thinks her prospects will be higher, and she wants to go to medical school and become a doctor so that she can "make people better." This dream might be halted in its tracks because of Walter's misuse of money, but that is left uncertain at the end of the book. Beneatha is trying to decide who she is and who she wants to be as she grapples with the ideas of different influences- Asagai, who wants her to put aside her "assimilationist" leanings, her family, who thinks she should settle with a rich African American man to support her family, and her own childhood dream of becoming an educated woman and a doctor.