Dreams in A Raisin in the SunLena, Walter, Ruth and Beneatha Younger all lived under the same roof, but their dreams were all different. As the head of the family, Lena dreamed of her children's dreams and would do whatever it took to make those dreams come true. Walter, Lena's eldest son, set his dream on the liquor store he planned to invest with his mother's money. Beneatha, on the other hand, wanted to become a doctor after college, and Walter's wife, Ruth, wanted to be rich. “A Raisin in the Sun” was a book about “dreams deferred,” and in this book, Lorraine Hansberry commonly described the dreams of the Younger family and how those dreams became “dreams deferred.” Lena Younger, Walter and Beneatha's mother, was a widow in her sixties who devoted her life to her children after the death of her husband. Retired from the Holiday family, she was waiting for her husband's insurance money. With the ten buts...