The American Dream in Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun :: A Raisin in the Sun

The American Dream in Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is about living the American Dream. Hansberry wrote her story in 1959. The American Dream that she describes and the one that currently exists are vastly different. In 1959, the breathing in was to work hard and live a comfortable life. Americans believed that you would live a good life as long as you had your family and had food on the table. Lets fast forward to 2003. The American Dream is to rescue two cars, a glamorous house, a pool, a 40 hour a week job, and oodles of stuff. I define stuff as material possessions such as videodisks, video games, and TVs. When did the day-dream go from being happy to having oodles of material possessions?I am devising a tipping point system to change the American Dream back to having a close family with your family, working hard, and being happy. By changing the dream, Americans will be happier and have less stress in their life. The new American Dream is potently engraved into the minds of nightspot. It will be difficult to tip back the other way. The change will not glide by suddenly. It can only happen slowly, and over a long period of time. The change from Hansberrys dream and the current dream also took years to change. The Law of the Few plays a huge role in changing the dream. To tip the dream in the better direction, some people that are influential in society need to adopt this dream as their own. If a man as successful as Bill Gates decided that he wanted a more laid back, it would do a great pot to attract others to do so as well. In retrospect, if I espouse this dream, no one would care. Bill Gates is considered a connector in our society. He has done much to improve our technology. That is why he would be more likely to cause a social epidemic than I would.The second factor that would have to be dealt with in changing the American Dream is the stickiness factor. Lets use Bill Gates as the exampl e again. If he went on TV proclaiming that he was a billionaire, no one would listen. Even if they did listen, they would not remember. If Gates went on TV and verbalize he was only going to work part time and he was going to give most of his money to charity, people would listen.