Comparison
A Raisin in the Sun vs The Great Gatsby
How A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeraldcompare on reading level, grade placement, curriculum overlap, and shared themes — derived from primary-source citations on each book’s ReadingList page.
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
- Grades
- 9–12
- Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 151
- Genre
- Drama
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Lexile
- 1070L
- Grades
- 10–12
- Published
- 1925
- Pages
- 180
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
At a glance
- Grade-range overlap
- Grades 10–12
- Year-of-publication gap
- 34 years (1959 vs 1925)
- Page-count gap
- 29 pages (151 vs 180)
- Shared curricula
- 6 of 5
- Shared themes
- 1 of 11
Curriculum overlap
Both books appear in 6 shared curriculum frameworks:
Themes
Shared
- American Dream
Only A Raisin in the Sun
- Black family life
- housing segregation
- gender and work
- assimilation vs heritage
- generational conflict
Only The Great Gatsby
- wealth and class
- obsession
- illusion and reality
- Jazz Age
- unrequited love