A Raisin In The Sun Women's Dream

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In a play named A Raisin In The Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry. Beneath, one of the character in the play who has an obstacle when her family doesn’t understand and support her dream, and now she is facing an external conflict with her family.It’s happen when Beneatha and Walter having conflict in the morning and he states “ What fool told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy ‘bout messin ‘round with sick people-then go be a nurse like other women or just get married and be quiet…” ( Hansberry 14). This states her brother ,Walter, not only doesn’t understand how important of her dream is, he also contempt her dream to become a doctor and think she doesn’t suit it because she is a women. He think women’s roll is only doing housework

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