Dream

Dream When people think of the “American Dream” they generally think a middle class, well-off family in a beautiful home with a couple of kids and maybe a dog. Both Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Author Miller’s Death of A Salesman deal with the concept of having a dream and trying to achieve it. In some sense both families have the same dream, a dream to be successful and happy, and the dream to have money. But the families face many different obstacles that they must overcome. Some are physical and some are mental or emotional struggles. Also in both plays, each member of the family has their own personal dream and sometimes struggle to realize that the family is the most important symbol in a home. Throughout both plays we see the struggles and hardships that both families must face in order to attain their dreams. In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, we see a poor black family struggling to keep their family united. The play is almost entirely based on the concept of dreams, whether it is an individual dream or the family dream. At family, dream, play, dreams, willy, successful, throughout, sons, money, both, salesman, must, man, life, home, happy, end, biff, believes, struggles, past, own, mama’s, families, cannot, youngers, willy’s, wife, way, walter, until, unite, understand, trying, tries, think, sun, success, succeed, realize, reality, raisin, plays, physical, order, miller, mama, lorraine, longing, live