Comparison Of The American Dream In A Raisin In The Sun And Frederick Douglass

America, since its conception, has been known as the "promised land." America is where one goes to escape persecution or achieve a dream that would be hard or impossible to achieve in their current location. This is essentially the "American Dream." The American Dream is to be able to create a better life for yourself, or any life you want, no matter who you are or where you are from. Walter and Frederick have two very different approaches to their American Dream. Walter's drive for money consumes him and complicates his relationship with his family while Frederick's passion for reading made him a more intelligent slave. The lives of the two men had different outcomes, but followed the same ideal of the American Dream.

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Both Charaters had different dreams, walter dream was to be able to get rich and support his family, while Frederick Dream was to become a free man. However, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin the sun was published 1959, during this time the social conditions of African-Americans and their journey for identity in a discrimitive society " A job. (Looks at her) Mama, a job? I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, "Yes, sir; no, sir; very good, sir; shall I take the Drive, sir?" Mama, that ain't no kind of job … that ain't nothing at all" (Hansberry 2). Also, In the narrative of Frederick Douglass, he applies that slavery is as harmful to whites as it is to slaves, he demostrates his trait of individualism througout his life by willing to take risk to overcome placed in his way to achiveve his American " As many of these as I could, I converted into teachers. With their kindly aid, obtained at different times and in different places, I finally succeeded in learning to read. When I was sent to errands, I always took my book with me, and by doing one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return" (Douglass