Raisin in the Sun

The American Dream in Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun The idea of the American Dream still has truth in today's time, even if it is wealth, love, or fame. The thing that never changes about the American Dream is that everyone deserves something in life and everyone, somehow, should strive to get it. Everyone in America wants to have some kind of financial success in his or her lives. In A Raisin in the Sun the author shows an African-American family struggling to get out of the poverty line, which is stopping them from making financial stability, or the American Dream. Its main focus is on the dreams of all the individuals of the Younger family. The author also shows how race, prejudice, and economic problems affect them. Thus preventing the family from attaining their dreams due to their status in life. The three most common American Dreams that the Younger’s family want to achieve are to be accepted by the white society, get a bigger house by moving into a more suburban area and to be financially stable. For example, when the Younger family receives the insurance check in the mail, Mama goes out and buys a house in a white neighborhood. Shortly after buying the house in the white neighborhood, which is known as Clybourne Park, they quickly send a representative by the name of Karl Linder to speak with Mama. Linder is a part of the New Neighbors Orientation Committee that welcomes newcomers in the neighborhood. Unfortunately, since the Youngers are black Linder states "It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities.” This basically states that Mr. Linder was trying to convince them not to live in the neighborhood, because they didn't fit into the description of that community. This is an example of them not being accepted by the white society.
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