The Younger family is worn-out and treading through their tiresome life in crowded quarters. The apartment that belongs to the Younger family is dirty and aged with many years of difficulties and experiences. Lorraine Hansberry uses symbolism to support the central idea that over time families endure struggles that can eventually be overcome. The dark and dismal apartment of the Younger’s shows the reality of their everyday life. Hansberry expresses, “ And here a table or a chair has been moved to disguise the worn places in the carpet…” (487). The worn places in the carpet symbolize the struggles that have worn everlasting scars in the lives of the Younger family. Just as the lifelessness and freshness has been taken out of the carpet,
