Raisin in the Sun
... a new house when she says, “Been thinking that we maybe could meet the notes on a little old two- story somewhere” (Hansberry 44) because her husband earned the money and is the one who is putting her dream into motion. That is her goal as a part of the family, to make the relatives happy to the extent; the family members won’t have too much chaos. All in all she wants to live the highlife of a white woman and not be cooped up in a single story apartment. Goals are things people want to achieve for their lifetime and Beneatha and Ruth are trying to achieve them. . Every person today has a dream of becoming something greater, but a dream is just a dream if no actions come from it. For example, when Walter talks to his son and says, “You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction… a business transaction that’s going to change our lives” (Hansberry 108) because he wants his son to be happy and to think of his father as something else. This shows the “transaction” will change his life into a whole lot better one because he will now have money and everything he ever wanted. This states that Walter’s dream is to become rich even though he knows in the back of his mind, that this will not come true. Furthermore, Walter talks to his son, once again, and his son Travis says, “A bus driver” and Walter replies “That ain’t what you want to be!” and Travis says “why not” and Walter says, “Because man it ain’t big enough- you know what I mean” (Hansberry 108) because Walter doesn’t want his son to start off in life with low pay. This explains that Travis’s dreams for becoming a bus driver are not good enough for Walter. As a result, Travis wants to become more like his father if he cannot become a bus driver. Dreams are like wishes in which will not come true, so to reality wishes are just ways to live each and every day because a dream can only be a dream and a wish can be a dream too. Goals and dreams can be deferred to the extent that one’s dream can be erased from their lives. For instance, Walters’s good friend Bobo brings the bad news by saying, “I’m sorry Walter… I had my life staked on this deal too” (Hansberry 137) because he doesn’t want Walter to be the only one who is interrogated by the fact that he lost part of the money on some stupid deal. Likewise, Walter threw away all the families money on one deal and made a huge mistake, which deferred the Beneatha’s dreams becaus...