Living in a “Kitchenette Building” What happens to dreams when there are ’s economic issues? In “Kitchenette Building,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, the speaker expresses how dreams are crushed by economic status. A family lives in a Kitchenette Building, with only caring for the “rent”, “feeding a wife”, and “satisfying a man”. The family has so much enough pressure with obtaining their basic needs, that they forget about the “dream” of a better life style. The speaker uses tone, symbolism, and diction to convey their frustration. This family lives in a Kitchenette building that is referred as a one unit apartment. They live in very poor conditions since there's “garbage ripening in the hallway” (line 6). This shows that the family doesn't
