Essay On A Raisin In The Sun American Dream
A Raisin in the Sun
Everyone in America wants to achieve financial success in their life in one form or another. Sometimes living in a capitalistic society entices many to become too materialistic. This is most commonly referred to as the American Dream. For most Americans, this high status is very difficult to achieve. The play, A Raisin in the Sun, (written by Lorraine Hansberry) examines an African-Americans family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving some sort of financial stability, or the American Dream. This correlates to the play A Raisin in the Sun because Mama, Walter, Ruth, and Beneatha had a dream of their own. In a way all four of these individuals have the same vision for the future. Lena Younger (“Mama”), Walter and Beneatha's mother. The matriarch of the family, Mama is religious, moral, and maternal. She wants to use her husband's insurance money as a down payment on a house with a backyard to fulfill her dream for her family to move up in the world. Along with a garden that she has always wanted as Mama states in the story, “well I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home.” (Hansberry, pg. 53) …show more content…
Walter's dream to own a liquor store is messed up. The money that his mother has given him to invest is taken by one of his friends Willy Harris, a potential partner in the business. Bobo says, “I’m talking about the fact that when I got to the train station yesterday morning-eight o’clock like we planned… man-Willy didn’t never show up.”
Everyone in America wants to achieve financial success in their life in one form or another. Sometimes living in a capitalistic society entices many to become too materialistic. This is most commonly referred to as the American Dream. For most Americans, this high status is very difficult to achieve. The play, A Raisin in the Sun, (written by Lorraine Hansberry) examines an African-Americans family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving some sort of financial stability, or the American Dream. This correlates to the play A Raisin in the Sun because Mama, Walter, Ruth, and Beneatha had a dream of their own. In a way all four of these individuals have the same vision for the future. Lena Younger (“Mama”), Walter and Beneatha's mother. The matriarch of the family, Mama is religious, moral, and maternal. She wants to use her husband's insurance money as a down payment on a house with a backyard to fulfill her dream for her family to move up in the world. Along with a garden that she has always wanted as Mama states in the story, “well I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home.” (Hansberry, pg. 53) …show more content…
Walter's dream to own a liquor store is messed up. The money that his mother has given him to invest is taken by one of his friends Willy Harris, a potential partner in the business. Bobo says, “I’m talking about the fact that when I got to the train station yesterday morning-eight o’clock like we planned… man-Willy didn’t never show up.”