After reading “A Raisin in the Sun” I realized all the characters have a common goal to improving their quality of life, essentially its about their dreams and how they deal with the oppression circumstances that run their lives. Hansberry uses stage directions to set up our expectations of what will happen in the play by giving us a sense the plays setting is in a lower class south side of chicago in the 1950’s. You also notice that the apartment is small and roach infested so you have an idea of their living situations. The characters are different but their goals remain the same. Walter wants to be a rich white class man. His sister has different values and dreams of becoming a doctor. The mother is conservative and wants to invest in the husband’s insurance in hoping to owning her own home. Hansberry created the American dream, A working family aiming for a better way of life.

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