Dreams and Dignity The American Dream, although different for each one of us, is what we all aspire to achieve. In the film A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family, who are black, all have a dream to better themselves and to have what all other American families want Ύ a shot at the American Dream. The American Dream to the Younger family is to own a home, but beyond that, to Walter Younger, it is to be accepted by the hegemony and not to be marginalized into a lower social category. In an article from The Wall Street Journal entitled "The American Dream", President Clinton refers to the American Dream as the belief that "if you work hard and play by the rules, then something good will happen to you" (Stein 1). In the film, Walter Lee Younger does not do either one of these things. Walter doesn’t show u....

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