The major theme of this play is the value and purpose of dreams. Walter’s continued existence is the struggle to escape the poverty that he was born with. He spends countless hours talking with men in similar situations trying to come up with ideas that would effectively remove them from poverty and into upper-class wealth and society. The rest of the family doesn’t agree with his ideas of buying liquor stores due to some stern Christian values instilled into them by Mama. When the family gets an insurance check for ten thousand dollars everyone in the family has their own idea about how to spend the money. In the

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