Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, is a dramatic tour de force and was one of the more important developments in American dramatic literature in the second half of the twentieth century. ... ” But rather than giving us an American tragedy in the vein of Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun ultimately offers us a message of hope. ... Indeed, A Raisin in the Sun, takes its name from a Langston Hughes poem, which begins with the line “What happens to a dream deferred?” Fittingly, then, all of the characters have obvious stated dreams within the play that form an important part of the ensuing drama: A Raisin in the Sun is essentially about dreams, as the main characters struggle to deal with the oppressive circumstances that rule their lives. ... He wonders whether those dreams shrivel up “like a raisin in the sun. ... In contemporary terms, she chronicles their nightmare in A Raisin in the Sun, an epic story of the Younger family struggling to realize the dream by escaping ghetto life. ... Rather, A Raisin in the Sun is a play that is a meditation that speaks to all of us about what it means to have a dream and find that dream left unfulfilled: .