A Dream Deferred
In A Raisin in the Sun, the author, Lorraine Hansberry, chronicles the ambitions and tribulations of the impoverished Younger family, and concurrently Hansberry attempts to answer Langston Hughes’ famous question: what happens to a dream deferred? After Walter Younger, who yearns to be affluent and to be able to provide for his family, loses all his money in a bad business deal and effectively deters his dream, he invites Karl Lindner to sell their recently-bought house in the primarily white Clybourne Park in order to gain more money As Walter struggles, especially in light of his lineage, yet ultimately decides not to claim that his family is inept to live in a white-dominated neighborhood, it causes him to start valuing …show more content…
Younger and wants his wife to almost unconditionally respect and support his dreams of entrepreneurship. However, at this moment, his mother is a upbraiding him like he is a young boy, his sister cannot bare to look at him out of spite and repudiation, and he is about to ruin his dignity in front of his son; he has little dignity or respect. Since Mama’s admonition, which only occurs because of Walter’s decision to give up the house, alludes that if Walter sacrifices his dignity, he will also sacrifice Travis’ worldview and Travis’ feeling of his place in society. Thus, the event causes Walter to realize that if Walter cannot gain respect in the eyes of his own family, then he can never achieve his dream of his family being proud of his accomplishments. Furthermore, because of Mama’s admonition, Walter’s overall uneasiness in his decision–as he vacillates between choices just as he from foot to foot in and speaks in a groveling tone, practically emitting unconfidence– is able to stem from his desire for his family to respect him and his decisions. Later, after Walter changes his decision and tells Lindner , Mama reflects on the event, saying Walter is “Kind of like a rainbow after the rain” and the narration describes Walter’s wife Ruth Younger “Biting her lip, lest her own pride explode in front of Mama” (Hansberry 876). Mama feels he is comparable to a ‘rainbow after the rain,’ as rainbows can be …show more content…
For, shortly after Willy runs off with Walter’s money and as a result, halts Walter’s dream of becoming an entrepreneur with a respectable job and enough pay to provide for his family, Walter makes plans to seek more money through giving away the family’s new house– along with their pride and dignity. However, after his mother deters his reckless plan by forcing him to confess, especially in light of his lineage and his sudden urge to be a better role model for his son, it allows him to develop into a dignified grown man who protects and preserves his family’s pride and values it over wealth. Thus, a dream deferred does, just as Hughes proposed, have the potential to ‘explode,’ but only if one is man enough to overcome his past failures and forge new
In A Raisin in the Sun, the author, Lorraine Hansberry, chronicles the ambitions and tribulations of the impoverished Younger family, and concurrently Hansberry attempts to answer Langston Hughes’ famous question: what happens to a dream deferred? After Walter Younger, who yearns to be affluent and to be able to provide for his family, loses all his money in a bad business deal and effectively deters his dream, he invites Karl Lindner to sell their recently-bought house in the primarily white Clybourne Park in order to gain more money As Walter struggles, especially in light of his lineage, yet ultimately decides not to claim that his family is inept to live in a white-dominated neighborhood, it causes him to start valuing …show more content…
Younger and wants his wife to almost unconditionally respect and support his dreams of entrepreneurship. However, at this moment, his mother is a upbraiding him like he is a young boy, his sister cannot bare to look at him out of spite and repudiation, and he is about to ruin his dignity in front of his son; he has little dignity or respect. Since Mama’s admonition, which only occurs because of Walter’s decision to give up the house, alludes that if Walter sacrifices his dignity, he will also sacrifice Travis’ worldview and Travis’ feeling of his place in society. Thus, the event causes Walter to realize that if Walter cannot gain respect in the eyes of his own family, then he can never achieve his dream of his family being proud of his accomplishments. Furthermore, because of Mama’s admonition, Walter’s overall uneasiness in his decision–as he vacillates between choices just as he from foot to foot in and speaks in a groveling tone, practically emitting unconfidence– is able to stem from his desire for his family to respect him and his decisions. Later, after Walter changes his decision and tells Lindner , Mama reflects on the event, saying Walter is “Kind of like a rainbow after the rain” and the narration describes Walter’s wife Ruth Younger “Biting her lip, lest her own pride explode in front of Mama” (Hansberry 876). Mama feels he is comparable to a ‘rainbow after the rain,’ as rainbows can be …show more content…
For, shortly after Willy runs off with Walter’s money and as a result, halts Walter’s dream of becoming an entrepreneur with a respectable job and enough pay to provide for his family, Walter makes plans to seek more money through giving away the family’s new house– along with their pride and dignity. However, after his mother deters his reckless plan by forcing him to confess, especially in light of his lineage and his sudden urge to be a better role model for his son, it allows him to develop into a dignified grown man who protects and preserves his family’s pride and values it over wealth. Thus, a dream deferred does, just as Hughes proposed, have the potential to ‘explode,’ but only if one is man enough to overcome his past failures and forge new