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A Raisin In The Sun Compare And Contrast Essay

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Contrasting All My Sons to A Raisin in the Sun Not everything is seen by people the same. Everyone has their own take on things. All My Sons shows Chris’s thinking when it comes to money, and then there's Walter from a raisin in the sun and how he feels about money. Plus the contrasting of different American dreams between the 2 plays. In All My Sons by Arthur Miller and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the authors examine the different meanings of the American Dream through their use of extended metaphor, character choices, and setting choices. Starting off, both authors demonstrate the different meanings of the American dream through the use of extended metaphors. Keller talked to his son and said, ”Well, as long as I know …show more content…

The author Arthur Miller was talking about the scenery saying, ”Upstage is filled with the back of the house and its open, unroofed porch which extends into the yard some six feet. The house is two stories high and has seven rooms. It would have cost perhaps fifteen thousand in the early twenties when it was built. Now it is nicely painted, looks tight ble, and the yard is green with sod, here and there plants whose season is gone.” (1.1). Here the narrator is talking about what kind of house they live in. Very modest and classy house sounds very nice to live in. Now in All My Sons they do have more money than in A Raisin in the Sun. Which goes along with the American dream because they are living it. Unlike a raisin in the sun they are not poor, but that does not mean they aren't living their own version of an American dream. In All my Sons they walk around in suits and nice dresses with a nice house. They just complain about not having husbands/wives. Chris from All My Sons has money, but he doesn't flaunt it. He doesn’t just always talk about money which is different from A Raisin in the Sun. Walter is talking about the $10,000, and it almost seemed like he got greedy over money. Almost as if he lost his way of life seeing what truly matters to him. He was worrying so much over money that he almost lost his family all together. The author Hansberry talks about some of …show more content…

Chris was talking to his father saying “I felt wrong to be alive, to open the bank‐book, to drive the new car, to see the new refrigerator. I mean you can take those things out of a war, but when you drive that car you've got to know that it came out of the love a man can have for a man, you've got to be a little better because of that.” (1.29). He chose to be in the war and because of this he deals with what seems to be a lot of grief. He almost blames himself for the people that died in the war. This relates back to the American dream because Chris just wants a family with Ann. Just to be happy he doesn't seem to care too much about the money, if anything it seems to bother him. It's also different from A Raisin in the Sun because Walter and his family deal with racist people who don't want them to live by them. Which changes the way they see life and other people. “bout life, Mama. You all always telling me to see life like it is. Well—I laid in there on my back today ... and I figured it out. Life just like it is. Who gets and who don’t get…. I’ve figured it out finally…. ’Cause we all mixed up. Mixed up bad. We get to looking ’round for the right and the wrong; and we worry about it and cry about it and stay up nights trying to figure out ’bout the wrong and the right of things all the time ... But I’ll say one thing for old Willy Harris ... he’s taught me something. He’s taught me to keep my eye

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