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Dreams Don’t always come true Loraine Hansberry gives a more complicated look at dreams than John Steinbeck: some come true, while others “dry up like a raisin in the sun.” In the play A Raisin in The Sun, she describes how non selfish dreams that effect more than one person come true, while dreams that are only for personal reasons, don’t. In the story a lower class African American family tries to get by through everyday life. One day Momma gets a ten thousand-dollar check from her insurance company. Each member of the family has his or her own idea of what will be done with the money. Walter wants to use the money to buy a liquor store, while Beneatha wants to use the money to pay for her college. Finally Momma wants to use the money to purchase a nice house in a better neighborhood, with a small garden in the back yard. All of these characters have the own ideas about what the money could be used for, but they should make a decision that will benefit the entire family, and not just themselves. Walters Younger’s dream was to take the insurance money and open a liquor store with his friends Willie Harris and Bobo. He believes that by opening this liquor store he will no longer have to wo