A Raisin In The Sun American Dream

A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is a play that directs most of its attention on overcoming obstacles to achieve the “American Dream”. Everyone in the world has their own perspective on what that fantasy is, including the characters in A Raisin in the Sun. Through the use of the Younger family, Hansberry focuses on the importance of achieving the “American Dream” regardless of the harsh turns and bends of life.
Mama has aspirations for supplying her family with a stable lifestyle that she never had. The plant that Mama tends to throughout the play symbolizes her care for her dream. Mama said, "Lord if this little plant don’t get more sun than it’s been getting it ain’t never going to see spring again.” Each morning she tends to
She wants a happy family, with a home, a car, clothes, TV, pretty much anything that are luxury items. We can clearly see how tenacious Ruth is about her dream when she says, “So you went and did it! PRAISE GOD! Please honey let me be glad, you be glad too. Ok walter a home..a home.” Ruth's upbeat response to when she discovered Mama purchased a house shows her steadfast desire for a life that is the “American Dream”. She can finally live a better life in a finer quality home compared to the old Younger home. Ruth trusts that possession can bring bliss and that is her ideal of her better
Although his actions are either positive or negative, he chose to do those actions with the thought that it would bring him closer to his fantasy. Walter wants to provide for his family through a business he is investing in. This business will be the gateway to Walter’s dream, of having a good job where he can feel that he is providing for his family and still have self respect. In the beginning of the play as Walter is getting ready to work he says , “I have been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the livingroom -- and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live…” This symbolizes how Walter wants to provide for his family but he can’t. His meaning of a man is by measuring his prosperity and capacity to accommodate his family. When Mama gives Walter money; he winds up losing his cash to a cheat and this is the point at which he understands the significance of his family's fantasies and where he originated from. Mama said, "He at long last come into his masculinity today, isn't that right? Sort of like a rainbow after the downpour." This symbolizes how Walter went from being looked downward on by his family to turning into his family's saint. He now comprehends what he must do, and that is for him to provide for his family by remaining with his them and face what's to come together. This is an alternate to what Walter had in mind about his ideal “American Dream”,