A Raisin in the Sun In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, four major characters struggle to hang onto their quest for the American Dream. Cramped in an apartment in the slums of Southside Chicago, the Younger family have discovered that the idea that hard work will purchase a house, a safe neighborhood, and a future for their children, is not working. Despite their perseverance as domestics or as a chauffeur, their chance for …showed first 75 words of 549 total…

…showed last 75 words of 549 total…her husband there to support her. She feels that Big Walter completed her dream and without him there is something missing or prohibiting her from living out that dream. Her plant that she has is a very important symbol of the garden that refers to her thought of the American Dream. She keeps it healthy and growing because as the plant grows, so does her hope to carry out her dream. Bibliography www.hansberry.com