Gender

• GG: women are represented zoomorphically as birds in cages.
• ARITS: black women are represented as the bane of the black mans existence
• GG + ARITS: the working women (Jordan and Beneatha) are criticized for their active positions in society, and being unmarried woman.

  Tom shames Jordan for 'running' around NY

  All in ARITS shame Beneatha for wanting more to life than 'marriage'
• GG + ARITS: Beneatha and Myrtle are shamed for attempting to transgress
• GG + ARITS: Mothers: Daisy and Ruth both express sadness with having to bring a child into their worlds.

  'fool' GG

  'she collapses into a fit of heavy sobbing' ARITS
• Both Ruth + Daisy are seen as burdens to their husbands attempts for more in life.

  'drift on forever seeking'

  'eat your eggs'
• GG: Madonna + The Whore: purity vs promiscuity (daisy vs myrtle)

  ARITS: This is missing in ARITS, since poverty streamlines their problems
• ARITS + GG: Both Tom + Walter are unfulfilled in their daily lives, searching for more.
• ARITS + GG: Both Walter + Gatsby are reaching for their unattainable dreams, and they lose their masculine strength in the pursuit.
• ARITS:

  Hansberry addressed feminist questions ahead of their time through Beneatha: proposing that marriage is not a necessary and that women should and can have ambitious career goals.

  
  

  Hansberry even the controversial (to this day) abortion debate, allowing it to enter action in an era where it was explicitly illegal.
• ARITS: takes a more explicit feminist approach to characterising Beneatha (versus Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle)
• GG + ARITS: Beneatha and Jordon share a refusal to conform to society's expectations of women.