Themes

• Dreams

  Plays name comes frmo Langston Hughes poem: where the poet asks 'what happens to a dream deffered? does it shrivel up like a raisin in the sun?'
• Dreams and Ambitions

  The intertwined and conflicting ambitions of the Younger drive the plays plot.

  Each character clings to a distinct dream, which have been deferred due to the limitations placed on the family by societal racism.
• Dignity and Pride
• Race, discrimination and assimilation
• Gender and feminism