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American Dreams With The Younger Family

American Dream through the Youngers Family
The idea of the American Dream still has truth in today's time, even if it is wealth, love, or
fame. The thing that never changes about the American Dream is that everyone deserves something
in life and everyone, somehow, should strive to get it. Everyone in America wants to have some
kind of financial success in his or her lives. The American dream is said to be that each man have
the right to pursue happiness and strive for the beat. In the play "A Raisin in the Sun", the author
shows an African-American family struggling to get out of the poverty line, which is stopping them
from making financial stability, or the American Dream. Its main focus is on Walter's effort to
make it, or be somebody. She also shows how race, prejudice, and economic problems effect a black
mans role in his family, how he provides, and his identity. It is also said that that the Youngers
family dreams were unreal and they couldn't attain there dreams due to their status in life.
The two most common American dreams that the Youngers family want to achieve is to be
accepted by the white society and to be financially stable. For example, when the Younger family
received the insurance check in the mail Mama went out and brought a house in the white
neighborhood. Shortly after she brought the house in the white neighborhood, which is known, as
Clybourne Park they quickly sent a representative by the name of Karl Linder. Linder was apart of
the New Neighbors Orientation Committee that welcomed newcomer in the neighborhood.
Unfortunately, since the Youngers were black Linder stated " It is a matter of the people of
Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that
our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities". (Hansberry 407). This
basically states that Mr. Linder was trying to convince them not to live in their neighborhood
because they didn't fit into...