What does happen to a dream deferred? This is the core issue in “A Raisin in the Sun”. Each character in the Younger household battles with this question at some point, and each of them is faced with another line from the Langston Hughes poem; the last one, in fact, which asks “Or does it explode?” I believe this represents a potential for destruction. A destruction could occur at any level, whether it be self …showed first 75 words of 652 total…

…showed last 75 words of 652 total…driven to practice medicine. This is a very important scene because we’re also introduced to how people can lose their faith in something so quickly. Beneatha now claims her dreams to be that of a child or idealist. This is one of the scenes that portrays her identity crisis and shows that even her deep-rooted dream of becoming a doctor can be swayed easily by not truly being certain about her path in life.