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Glass Menagerie essay

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These dreams however, can not be accomplished without struggle and self-determination. In Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, we see a family who strives for the American dream. We see a struggle of individual dreams versus the responsibility to family through Walter's dream of opening a liquor store; Beneatha's dreams of paying her college tuition and becoming a doctor; Ruth's desire to be wealthy through her husband Walter; and Lena's (Mama) dream of owning a house...
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To reach their dreams, we see through the play how these different routes all typified the routes taken by black Americans. Walter Younger's ambition is filled with impulsiveness and risk that was exemplified by the route taken by African Americans who have been oppressed and willing to do anything in blind desperation to accomplish their dreams...
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