Question

Hey Guys:)
By looking at the question, what does lame mean? They discussed the dilemma with their
father. The swan was still too lame to fly,
and the goose, though it could fly, seemed
reluctant to leave the swan. After a thoughtful
pause, he said the problem required a bit of
research.

Answer 1

The class and I are discussing Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959), one of the great plays of

the American theater. The incredulous questions have come, as they often do, in response to my

innocent suggestion that Mr. Lindner is the devil. The Youngers, an African American family in Chicago,

have made a down payment on a house in an all-white neighborhood. Mr. Lindner, a meekly apologetic

little man, has been dispatched from the neighborhood association, check in hand, to buy out the

family’s claim on the house. At first, Walter Lee Younger, the protagonist, confidently turns down the

A moment occurs in this exchange between professor and student when each of us adopts a lookout