Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

In Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun,” she uses the Younger family to show that as characters strive to reach their dreams they often disdain the determinations of others but they may eventually learn to care one another in effort to better their lives. 'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry is a play about a family in the late 1940s that struggles through lack and discrimination to find the American Dream. American Dream the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. This message explores their hopes and dreams. As it shown in the book that everybody wanted to pursue their own dreams and goals. They weren’t thinking about anybody else but their self. The absence of the American Dream does infiltrate much of the play. Each main character in the play seeks to appropriate the "American Dream" in their own lives. The family consist of the Mama, the deeply Christian grandmother; her son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth and son Travis; and Beneatha, her daughter.

The American Dream is something many Americans desire. The desire to the mind – set or belief that anyone can be successful if they worked hard for what they’ve been yearning. It is considered to be a ‘perfect life’; it can be full of money, contentedness or even love. There are many divergent opinions given by people. Walter Younger from Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ and Willy Loman from Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of the Salesman’ both have their own views on the American Dream and how it can be achieved. Walter Lee Younger, a

An American Dream is happy and successful, wanting to make something of yourself, or the idea that your children will do better than yourself. The two plays read that are built upon an American Dream are A Raisin in the Sun and A Streetcar Named Desire. A Raisin in the Sun is a play set in Chicago some time between now and WWII. The play focuses on a small family, the Youngers, who are living together each with their own American Dream. In A Raisin in the Sun Mama’s American Dream is fulfilled.

In the play, Mama has her own American Dream that she chases after, which heavily

    The American Dream, although different for each of us, is what we all aspire to achieve. In Lorraine Hansberry's, play, A Raisin in the Sun, each member of the Younger family desperately hopes for their own opportunity to achieve the American Dream. The American Dream to the Younger family is to own a home, but beyond that, to Walter Younger, it is to be accepted by white society.

The American dream was an idea that every American citizen should have the opportunity to succeed through hard work and determination. The American Dream is still alive till date. However today, The American Dream is about achieving materialistic happiness. In Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, the main characters encounter numerous challenges while they attempt to attain what they believe to be their perspective of The American Dream. Lena Younger's dream is to live a full and peaceful life with her family.

The American Dream is a wish or dream, that is truly different for each person, the country equally provides for all U.S citizens to accomplish their wishes and dreams. The two characters from A Raisin in the Sun, Walter and Mama, have their own American Dream that is unique from another, but there can be some similarities between them. The similarities between Walter and Mama’s American Dream is to provide the family with their needs, leading the family to a certain future, and living with a good amount of money, but being from different time periods, having a need of money, and having different personalities makes their dreams different. The American Dream is something that unique for everyone, but the dream for Walter and Mama are similar.

Cather argues that the American Dream is achieved by leading a simple, content life rather than a lavish one. Prior to this part of the story, Mary watches her husband, Anton, and tells the story of their relationship. She tells about how she and Rosicky

This piece of evidence emphasizes her negative view and her identity crisis. However, not every aspect of the American dream is a grim one. Ms. Shaush thinks positively of the American dream. The poem states “, For over two hundred years, America has served as a beacon of opportunity. America truly is ‘the land of opportunity’ (Shaush).”

A dream is not something you should just experience when you drift asleep, but it should be a reality when you have woken. The American Dream is something people push for, it takes blood, sweat and tears to become a reality. If that means, waking at the crack of dawn or laboring late at night, doing long hours, for the dream…... it will happen. Even if the dream is simple as love the unique thing about it is, everyone has a chance to have something good in life and everyone should push towards it. The Raisin in the sun is primarily all about the American dream and the trails that it take for it to be fulfilled. Each character has the own personal desire, and strives to reach their dreams. Mama’s American dream, of buying a home is affected by her traits of compassion, pride, and integrity. Mama's always dreamed of a home of her own. She says, 'Well I, always wanted me a garden like I use to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home. This plant is as close as I ever got to having one.'

The American dream is an idea that many americans aspire during their living in america. This being it is the concept that the american dream is an illusion of keeping a dream in mind. In fact, in the story Walter illustrates his American dream “And I’ll pull the car up on the driveway.. just a black plain Chrysler, I think with white walls-

The land of the free and the home of the brave, means something to many Americans, but that saying also means hope and freedom to a great deal of immigrants from many countries. Many foreigners think of America as the land of hope and a chance to have the American dream of a job and home, but for those who live there might not realize how lucky they are. The literary theme of the American Dream is a rather large subject of literature. Some of the stories that truly relate to the American Dream are Of Mice and Men, “To Build a Fire”, “Desiree’s Baby”, and The Life You Save May Be Your Own. These stories show that the American Dream has many different outcomes, typically the outcome is either good or bad.

At most times, the American Dream resembles an ideological puzzle more than a fully realizable image. Within the confines of her fantastical, theatrical world Lorraine Hansberry attempts to fit a few of these pieces together and, in the process, ends up showing exactly how everything doesn't just snap-together all nicely. The problems in her play, A Raisin In The Sun, deal primarily with the basic nature of humans and their respected struggle's to "make it" in America.

The American Dream started off as propaganda in order to make the American people of the early twentieth century work harder to build a successful economy. The idea of the American Dream is that every American citizen has an equal opportunity of making money along with owning a large house, some land, and having a family with kids. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates that the American Dream, no matter how simple is impossible to achieve. As everyone has their own interpretation of the American Dream, Steinbeck uses George and Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s Wife to demonstrate how the American Dream is impossible to achieve and how important the dream was for people so they could carry on with their lives.

A blue house, red shutters, and a white picket fence with a border collie. Three kids are running around in the front lawn up on a hilltop. That is what the American dream is right? The American dream is truly in the eye of the beholder. One might think that the American dream is an apartment in downtown Los Angeles, but others might want the smell of fresh cut grass in a small suburb. It’s whatever the person who is working for it wants it to be. As we can see in the play, all of the main characters might be striving for an American dream, but none of them are striving for their same American dream.