The American Dream In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin The Sun

Imagine you are a African American in the 1950s, you have been released from the shackles of slavery but, it did not get better as it was abolished almost 100 years; slavery merely had evolved into a new form. The Younger family works tirelessly in a country where no matter what they do they will always be lower class, simply due to their complexion. The entire Younger family is striving to reach the American Dream by using Big Walter’s insurance money, the family denys the offer by Linder to buy the house off of them and to attempt to sway the Younger family from their American Dream of living in a new house. As Asagai said to Beneatha about change, “... because we cannot the the end- we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd but those who see the changes- who dream, who will not give up- are called idealists… and those who only see the circle we call them the realists”. This quote displayed by a Nigerian man is telling Beneatha that even though you cannot see the changes happening, does not mean that they are not happening. The line of change is infinite and is not merely a circle with no change from the beginning, it is a forever adaptive line which changes for eternity.
I didn't make this world! It was given to me this way!” This expression explains how Walter thinks of the world and all of the bad things that happen as in it will never get better because this is just how the world is. Walter tells Beneatha that would enjoy the wealthy life that would happen with the insurance money that was ran off with by Willey Harris. “Hell, yes, I want me some yachts someday! Yes, I want to to hang some real pearls ‘round my wife neck….. Somebody tell me who