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Raisin in the Sun
In Loraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, the characters’ have a dream of their own, which get in the way of the other characters’ dreams. These dreams divide the characters’, which create problems between them. The root of each of their dreams is through a ten-thousand dollar check. The dreams of three characters’, Walter, Beneatha, and Mama Younger, create conflict with one another that make their dreams hard to achieve.
Mama Younger, the mother of Walter and Beneatha Younger, devoted her life to her children after her husband’s death and would do whatever it took to help make her children’s dreams come true. She was retired and waiting for her husband’s insurance money to arrive. With the ten-thousand dollar check, Mama decided to buy a house in Clybourne Park and put some of the money in the bank for Beneatha’s medical school. Mama Younger said, “Some of it got to be put away for Beneatha and her schooling’ -- and ain’t nothing going to touch that part of it. Nothing. Been thinking that we maybe could meet the notes on a little old two-story somewhere, with a yard where Travis could play in the summertime, if we use part of the insurance for a down payment and everybody kind of pitch in. I could maybe take on a little day work again, few days a week” (Act 1, Scene 1, Pg. 44). She expected that everyone would be happy with what she had planned to do with the money and they did, except for Walter Younger.
Walter Younger, Mama’s son, set his dreams on owning a liquor store with the money he was hoping to invest from his mother. Walter was upset when he heard his mother had spent the insurance money on the house and thought it wasn’t fair that Beneatha received some of it for her medical school while he received nothing for his business. Mama, who always wanted her son to be happy, ended up giving the rest of the insurance money to Walter including the money for Beneatha’s schooling. Mama Younger said to her son, “And from now on any penny that come out

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