Lorraine Hansberry uses the character of Mama and her dream of buying a home as a way to demonstrate her desire for the American Dream. Class status in the United States has long been viewed as a “separator” between both raci

The character of Walter allows Hansberry to demonstrate the struggles faced by African Americans along their struggles for searching out the American Dream. Walter is Hansberry’s way of demonstrating the struggles of a 20th century African man trying to support his family while achieving something for himself at the same time. Instead of using the insurance money to better the life of his family, Walter selfishly pouts until he gets his way. When he looses the insurance money, Walter not only lets himself down, but his family. He knows that in thinking that the insurance money would solve all their problems, he was wrong, and the fact that he cannot handle the money himself demonstrates Walter’s inability to benefit his family. He often fights with his family, and does not understand that his family’s problems are his too, and that he must respect them and listen to them in order to better their lives and come closer to achieving the American Dream. As the family moves and struggles on the little money they have, Walter eventually realizes that it takes more than just money to better one’s life, it is a joint effort and a combination of dreams and if they worked together, they would be able to achieve their American Dream of bettering their family. When Walter defies Mr. Linder, he “finally becomes a man” (151), and shows that though his family did not live out their ideas of the American Dream, they lived out t

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