Afro-American Dream on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in The Sun

Abstract

In this research paper, I've tried to explore the unfulfilled dream of Afro-American people. After studying the text A Raisin in the Sun, I've tried to expose the discrimination that blacks have faced. Until they realize who they are, they can not do anything. For this, their dreams are with themselves. Their dreams make the play a play of dream-all unfulfilled. But there is a positive note that whole family, despite their loss of money, can stand altogether against racial and patriarchal order of the society. Only two dreams appear pertinent towards the end of the play. One is buying home in the white dominated Clybourne Park Improvement Association area. And the other is the respect to the family, particularly the educated one; Bentha pays to her African suitor, Asagai. It shows the fact that the dream of the blacks is as important for females as they are for males.