Lorraine Hansberry American Dream

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The Youngers became disillusioned with the American dream. Lorraine Hansberry, the author, shows an African American family in Harlem, 1960s struggling to make it in America. The family struggles because they can not get out of the poverty line, which is holding them back from achieving the American dream.
They mostly became disillusioned with the American dream when they got a $10,000 check in insurance money and Mama bought the new house in a white neighborhood. When Mama bought the house the rest of the family did not like that it was in a white neighborhood because they would have been the only blacks. Also a man called Mrs. Lindner came over and tried to persuade them from moving into the white neighborhood by saying, “It is a matter

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