Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin In The Sun - Dignity and the American Dr

Dignity and the American woolgather in A Raisin in the Sun The American Dream, although different for each of us, is what we all purpose to achieve. In Lorraine Hansberrys, correspond, A Raisin in the Sun, each member of the young family desperately hopes for their own opportunity to achieve the American Dream. The American Dream to the jr. family is to own a home, but beyond that, to Walter Younger, it is to be accepted by white society. In the book entitled Advertising the American Dream, Roland knock againstand refers to the American Dream as the belief that if you reckon hard and play by the rules, then you will achieve your goals (Marchand 1). In the play, Walter Lee Younger does not do either one of these things. Walter doesnt show up for work regularly and he certainly has no intentions of playing by the rules to come a business licenses. Walter Lee is a man stuck in a dead end job that he sees as demeaning and he becomes desperate to free himself from the bonds o f poverty, oppression and racial discrimination. Walter Lee feels that with money he can change the hegemonys view of him as a poor, stupid, pitch b deficiencyness servant. The hegemonys friendly construction of reality about blacks as being lesser and the hegemonys ethnocentric perception of being superior, is corroborated in an article titled The Colour step of Beauty from The Peak. Cristina Rodrigues, a member of the black cultural and social active group Olodum, says In Brazil, nobody wants to be black because the mass media equates black with poor and stupid (Aujla 2). Walter has a loving relationship with his family members, but he also has a relationship that frustrates him. Walters family frustrations are brought on by societys lack o... ...y. The Peak. 4 May 1998 1-5. procurable http//www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/98-2/issue1/colourbar.html Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York Signet, 1988. Johnson, Lyndon B. The American Promise. Public Papers of the Presi dents of the United States Lyndon Johnson, vol. 1 (1965), 281. 1-9. Available http//www.civnet.org/resoures/teach/ raw material/par6/40.htm Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream. Los Angeles, CA. University of California Press, 1985 Margolin, Michael. Reasons in the Sun. Metro Times. 25 March 1998 1-3. Available http//www.metrotimes.com/arts/stories/18/26/RasnInSn.html U.S. Census Bureau. United States regime Bureau of Statistics. Available http//www.census.gov/prod/3/98pub/p20-509u.pd U.S. Federal Law. Cornell Law Resources. Available http//law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-156.ZS.html