The American Dream in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Essay

Check coming today? The Life Insurance check that mum will soon be receiving is the source of all the dreams in the young family. A major argument that Lorraine Hansberry makes in her play A Raisin in the Sun is the importance of dreams. Dreams ar what each member of the Younger family is operate by. Mama wants to have her own home in a strait-laced part of town she does not want her children growing up in a place with rats. Walter wants to have a successful business so he can surpass the poverty that has plagued his family. And Beneatha wants to get a swell education, become a doctor, and marry a nice man. Dreams are particularly important to the Younger family as they come from a poverty soaked family and desire to live the American Dream. Every member of the Younger family has a dream but each one is various with a different view on what the true American Dream really is.The Youngers are a very poor family, and this shows in the setting of a petite Chicago apartment wit h several people living in obturate proximity of each other. Hansberry also shows how the Youngers are a olympian family by the way everything is arranged in the little apartment. Everything throughout the apartment was selected with boot and love and tear down hope and brought to this apartment and arranged with taste and pride. This shows that even though the Youngers do not have much, they are still proud of what they have. In a sense their pride is coming from the fact that they al...