The Younger family is a poor, working-class family striving to live together in tenement housing in the South Side of Chicago in the early 1960s.
A lack of money has left them with a lack of space. The money that Lena Younger retains from her dead husband's insurance policy has allowed them more space, though it is a space in which they are not wanted: all-white Clybourne Park.
When Ruth, Walter Younger's wife, finds out...
The Younger family is a poor, working-class family striving to live together in tenement housing in the South Side of Chicago in the early 1960s.
A lack of money has left them with a lack of space. The money that Lena Younger retains from her dead husband's insurance policy has allowed them more space, though it is a space in which they are not wanted: all-white Clybourne Park.
When Ruth, Walter Younger's wife, finds out that she is pregnant, the concern is over how much it will cost to feed the child and that having another one could prevent the other characters' ability to do things. Ruth herself insists that they will move into a house as planned, even if she has to scrub the floor of every white family in town to afford it.
Walter's ambitions to open a liquor store with his friend Willy have less to do with a desire to provide for his family and more to do with becoming one of the men whom he chauffeurs around during the day.
Money, in the play, is the thing that stands between the characters and the comfortable, secure lives that they want. For some, such as Walter and his sister Beneatha, who dreams of being a doctor, it is what they need to become the people that they want to be.
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