dream deffered
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Lorraine Hansberry introduces A Raisin in the Sun with a poem by Langston Hughes. The poem makes a conjecture about dreams that were forgotten or put off. Hughes wonders whether those dreams shrivel up "like a raisin in the sun." The play is, basically, about dreams. Each member of the Younger family has a different and individual dream. Each character struggles everyday to reach that longed dream and at the end of the play they realize that a true dream is the one that unites the whole family.
Life has frustrated Walter Lee, the protagonist of the story, many times. He's a Black man trying to succeed in the times of the Segregation and the beginning of the civil rights movement. The American Dream, although different for each one of us, is what we all aspire to achieve. Walter Lee wants to reach that dream of financial stability...