The importance of struggle in A Raisin in the Sun“Why some people persist despite insurmountable obstacles, while others quickly give up or never bother to try ” ( Gunton 118)? A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, is a commentary on life and our struggle to understand and control it. The final scene of the play between Asagai and Beneatha compares two contemporary points of view on why we continue to try to change the future and comes to the conclusion that, far from being a means to an end, the true meaning of life it's the fight. Whether we succeed or not, our lives have purpose only if we have tried to make the world a better place for ourselves and others – only, in other words, if we follow our dreams. Many self-styled realists dismiss this attitude as naïve and naïve. unrealistic, that finding value in the pursuit of dreams is simply a self-induced illusion. Often this perspective is achieved after much bitter suffering for little or no apparent reason, as in the case of Beneatha Younger. Already cynical by nature due to the conditions of the world into which she was born, a world in which poor blacks with aspirations for something better were generally doomed, she became embittered with life when her dream of becoming a doctor was seemingly dashed. From an outside perspective, it seems obvious that he reacted badly: the money his brother lost, after all, was not his at all but his mother's, and how did he expect to finance college without his father's death and the resulting insurance check is unclear. What is clear, however, is that the death of her long-held aspiration had a profound effect on her. “A dream looked at from afar brings disappointment when it collapses; a dream that dies in the middle of paper, in the mundane and daily anxieties of life, without thinking about what our existence means or how we can change it. There is another reason, however, why we should strive to shape our future, no matter how futile it may seem. Lost causes can be winnable, if enough people care about them to make them succeed: there's always the hundredth dream. Works Cited: Bloom, Harold. American literature of the twentieth century. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Draper, James P. Black Literature Criticics. Detroit: Gale Research Incorporated, 1992. Gunton, Sharon R. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1981. Hansberry, Lorraine. A raisin in the sun. Literature and the writing process. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996. Hansberry, Lorraine. A raisin in the sun. New York: Seal, 1988.