Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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Lorraine Hansberry does an excellent job of exploring the ideas of dreams in her play A Raisin in The Sun. Beneatha has a dream of becoming a doctor and Walter has a dream of owning a liquor store. All of these plans for the future are things that today’s people, especially youth, can connect to. Through her writing, Hansberry shows that many dreams get deferred with time and usually leave an impact on the dreamer. One of the biggest dreams that is portrayed in this play is Walter’s dream of owning a liquor store. Through Walter, Lorraine Hansberry shows that the most desired dreams can be put off. Walter has wanted to open a liquor store for a long time, but just couldn’t find the money to make it happen. His verbalized reason for his dream is to provide more for his family, but, of course, he also wants to do something bigger and more important with his life. Walter has found that being …show more content…

In the end of the play, we find out the reasoning for her dream in a conversation between Beneatha and Asagai. Beneatha explains a childhood story that made her so passionate about being a doctor. After a friend of hers had been hurt and stitched up by the doctors she said she couldn't get over, “That that was what one person could do for another, fix him up- sew up the problem, make him all right again. That was the most marvelous thing in the world...(page 133)” she said, “I wanted to do that (page 133).” Unfortunately, near the end of the play, Beneatha loses her devotion to follow her dream. Her dream gets deferred because she realizes that there will always be bad in the world. No matter how many people she fixes up, there will always be people doing bad. Beneatha’s deferred dream has an impact on her because she let the words of Water and her circumstance get in the way of continuing to pursue her dream. In a way, she loses her underlying strength in this part of the

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