Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin In The Sun - The Importance of the Strug

The Importance of the Struggle in A Raisin in the Sun Why do some people persist notwithstanding insurmountable obstacles, while some others give up quickly or neer bother to try (Gunton 118)? A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, is a commentary on livelihood and our struggle to comprehend and arrest it. The last scene in the play between Asagai and Beneatha contrasts two contemporaneous views on why we keep on trying to change the future, and reaches the last that, far from being a means to an end, the real meaning of life is the struggle. Whether we succeed or not, our lives are purposeful only if we have tried to constitute the world a relegate place for ourselves and others- only, in other words, if we follow our daydreams. Many self-described realists dismiss this attitude as naive and unrealistic, that conclusion value in the pursuit of dreams is merely a self-induced delusion. Often, this perspective is obtained later on much bitter suffering for little or no sheer reason, as in the case of Beneatha Younger. Already a natural cynic due to the condition of the world into which she was born, a world where poor blacks with aspirations of something better were generally doomed, she became embittered with life when her dream of becoming a doctor was apparently shattered. From an outside perspective, it seems obvious that she reacted poorly the money her brother lost, after all, was not hers at all but her mothers, and how she expected to finance college without the death of her preceptor and the insurance check that followed is unclear. What is clear, however, is that the death of her long-held aspiration had a profound case on her. A dream glanced from afar brings disappointment when it collapses a dream that dies w... ...th the mundane, everyday anxieties of life, giving little thought to what our existence means or how we can change it. There is another reason, however, that we should strive to mold our suffer future, n o matter how futile a task it may seem. broken causes can be winnable, if enough people care about them to make them succeed there is always the hundredth dream. Works Cited Bloom, Harold. Twientieth-Century American Literature. crude York Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Draper, James P. Black Literature Criticisms. Detroit Gale Research Incorporated, 1992. Gunton, Sharon R. Contemporary literary Criticisms. Detroit Gale Research Company, 1981. Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Literature and the Writing Process. Upper turn on River, New Jersey Prentice Hall, 1996. Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York Signet, 1988.