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Book Report A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, illustrates the timeless struggle for the furtherance of family values and morals with extreme clarity. The play follows the life of a small black family’s struggle to keep their dreams from tenants to owners alive. These dreams, and the struggles necessary to reach them, as well as coming to terms with the dreams that are out of reach, are the focus and driving force behind this story of every persons struggle to achieve goals that are not always in tune with societies thoughts or ideas on a persons place in life. The internal difficulties of the family, and the detrimental effects of these problems, are major themes in the play. In the opening scene; a husband, Walter, and wife, Ruth, are seen having a fight over Walter’s dream to become a “mover and shaker” in the business world by using an incoming insurance check for his mother as a down payment on a potential liquor business. Walter tells his wife, “I’m trying to talk to you ‘bout myself and all you can say is eat them eggs and go to work.” This is the first sign of Walter’s recurring feelings, that if family, walter, values, money, life, goals, dreams, pride, group, because, play, house, time, struggle, sometimes, new, morals, later, insurance, herself, good, dream, bigger, beneatha#8217s, behind, away, another, about, younger, yet, world, wife, upon, trying