Everyone’s dreams are different and many people don’t even have the chance to fulfill them. So, what happens when someone cannot achieve their dream? Or when someone must wait for the right moment before they can reach their dream, a moment that may never come? These questions are the base of the play by Lorraine Hansberry, titled A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry writes about what happens when everyone dreams.
The play follows a man named Walter and his family. There are five family members living in a small, two bedroom house, and everyone has a dream away from the old, musty house. Walter wants to pay for a liquor licence to start a business, Walter’s wife, Ruth, wants a nice home for the family, and Walter’s sister, Beneatha, dreams of becoming a doctor. Everyone’s dreams can come true when Walter’s mother receives an insurance check in the mail after Walter’s father passes away from an untold cause. But the driving question of the play is whether Walter will achieve his dream?
Mama, the head of the household, only wants what’s best for her family, so she decides to go buy a house with
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In order to fix a bad situation, Walter is sitting in the living room, deciding if it would be smart to move to the house Mama bought with no money, no dream, and a broken family. This is the precise moment, the climax, Walter realizes that his dream is dead, but his family can still make theirs a reality. At that moment, their dreams become Walters’. As the new head of the household, it is his dream to make their dreams come true. The new house will fulfill Ruth’s dream of stability for her family, Mama’s dream of having a garden, and will kickstart Beneatha’s dream of being a doctor. To end the play, Hansberry allows the whole family to start over, in a new neighborhood where they can finally reach and touch their