Many people are born into poverty, along with a society of ridicule and discrimination, in which people must encounter in order to overcome these struggles and accomplish their goals. In Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," the Younger family face numerous situations and dilemmas that obstruct their path to a better life and future. They struggle in obtaining money, finding their identity, and dealing with a prejudice society. Though, these conflicts only increase their pride, esteem and dignity throughout the drama.
             Little sunlight enters the tenement of the Youngers who live in south side Chicago, in a place of poverty and poor communities. Their scarcity of money and short income places them into an affordable apartment with two rooms, shared among five members, and one bathroom for all the occupants of the building. Lena Younger, more widely known as mama, achieves her dream of buying a house and immediately puts thirty-five thousand dollars down on a new house and sixty-five thousand into Walter's care. All hope is lost when Walter loses the money and the family ends up back to where they started, with nothing. Though the money is lost, this lifetime dream of Mama and Ruth's is not destroyed. They keep their pride and dignity and contribute to sacrificing their time into working endless hours to keep the house. Ruth says, "Lena-I'll work... I'll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago... I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to-but we got to move..."(Hansberry 112). Through the struggle of poverty, one can still achieve success by keeping their pride and confronting the problem. Walter often struggles with his identity and individuality as a person. He feels as if an empty life lies ahead of him with no future. He states, "Sometimes I can see the future stretched out in f...