The characters in this play all seem to be embodying different reactions a person can have towards their “Colonizers.” Beneatha, and her friend Asagai seem to embody the ideal that Frantz Fanon argues against, and on page 1496 her brother tells her that she is so wrapped up in the “New Negroes” mentality and that she is “the first person in the history of the entire human race to successfully brainwash yourself.” However, Beneatha’s conversation with Asagai is a perfect mirror of the argument of Frantz Fanon. Here is the colonized intellectual (Asagai) arguing that revolution and martyrdom may very well be a good thing, that one must push ahead no matter what happens. It’s not really very subtle.
So much so in fact that the story, the main plot of which revolves around the family’s plight with the check and the way Walter deals with it, which in the end, is in successful rebellion against the colonizing power, as it were, and the need to push ahead no matter the consequences.
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