Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, tells the story of an African-American working-class family with dreams. They are willing to rebel against the position that society has imposed on them because of their race and class in order to achieve their dreams. Walter Younger is a chauffeur who "can find no peace with that part of society which seems to permit him and no entry into that which has willfully excluded him" (Willie Loman 23). He wants to get rich and live like his employer, Mr. Arnold, does. Sometimes Walter feels like he's going crazy. She tells her mother, "Sometimes it's like I can see the future stretched out before me, just as clear as day...Hanging out there, on the edge of my days. Just waiting for me, a great looming empty space, full of nothing... But it must not be” (73-4). James Draper explains Walter's inability to act in his work "Black Literature Criticisms," saying: The American ghetto hero can surrender and contemplate his misery in pink beats to the beat. of hypnotic saxophone melodies, but the revolution seems alien to him in his circumstances (America), and it is easier to dream of personal wealth than of a communal state in which universal dignity is supposed to be corollary space allows for another alternative: it can take its place on any of the challenge's numerous frontiers (such as helping to break down tight neighborhoods) that are certainly limited because they certainly do not threaten the basic social order. (Draper 214) Walter's sister Beneatha, who is studying at the local university to become a doctor, fights many of her own social battles. In college, he finds "a place, as his family cannot, among others... middle of paper... today by minority families. Works Cited and Consulted: Domina, Lynn. Understanding A Raisin In The Sun. Connecticut. Greenwood Press, 1998. Draper, James P. Black Literature Criticisms, 1988. Hansberry, Lorraine Reflections: . Willie Loman, Walter Younger and He Who Must Live" The Village Voice - 12 August 1959. Web 23 May 2015https:// news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1299&dat=19590812&id=09pHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NYwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6584,6415280&hl= itRose, Philip. “YOU CAN'T DO IT ON BROADWAY: 'A Raisin in the Sun' and Other Theatrical Improbabilities” Limelight Editions 2004. Wilkerson, Margaret B. “The Sighted Eyes and Feeling Heart of Lorraine Hansberry Black.” American Literature Forum 17.1 (1983): 8-13.