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

Check coming today? The Life Insurance check that Mama will soon be receiving is the source of all the dreams in the Younger family. A major argument that Lorraine Hansberry makes in her play A Raisin in the Sun is the importance of dreams. Dreams are what each(prenominal) member of the Younger family is driven by. Mama wants to piddle her own home in a nice part of town she does not want her children maturement 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 good education, become a doctor, and marry a nice man. Dreams are especially important to the Younger family as they come from a poverty cockeyed family and desire to live the American Dream. Every member of the Younger family has a dream but each one is different with a different come across on what the true American Dream really is.The Youngers are a very poor family, and this shows in the setting of a tiny Chicago flatcar with several people living in close proximity of each other. Hansberry also shows how the Youngers are a proud family by the way everything is arranged in the little apartment. Everything throughout the apartment was selected with care and love and even 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...