Living with a dream gives life a greater purpose. When the mind posses a dream, there are many possibilities that present themselves to us that make us want to achieve our dream. Whether the dream is to become a doctor or the president or a rock star, dreams are personal.
In "A Raisin in the Sun", everyone in the family has some kind of dream they want to pursue. Walter dreams of investing in a liquor store while Mama wants to live in a nice house and tend to a garden of her own. Dreams create a better place for them to think. They can escape the little house that they live in and become lost in their world of dreams. We see when Mama talks about her dream of buying a house with her husband back when they were younger, her voice becomes airy and out of this world because she is in that state of mind where her dreams become her reality. Walter, he has the strongest dream but most dangerous dream because his relies on money. He wants to invest in a business with the hopes of striking it rich. He becomes greedy over money that isn't his to spend. Why? Because he yearns for his dream to become his reality.
Reading the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes is closely connected to this play and specifically Walter's Dream. It emphasizes that a dream can shrivel up and die away or BLOW UP in your face, and just like that, your dream is gone. It shows us that it's painful to watch all of the hard thought and strive put into reaching the dream, die as fast as it came.
Now I'm not discouraging you to dream... and neither is Lorraine Hansberry or Langston Hughes...
Dreaming is beautiful because there is always a possibility of it becoming reality.
