Beneatha differed dream.

The American Dream is one of the leading causes of oppression. I have an ambition but it differs from the American Dream. I want to express myself, not remain dormant to adhere to that stereotypical wife who just sits in the kitchen and makes it her goal to only tend to the family's needs as I am one for "whom Bread-Food-is not enough" (65). The American Dream is simply not enough. Langston Hughes addresses this issue is his famous poem "what happens to a differed dream"

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore –
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over –
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode? (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175884 )

My dream is differed. I want to be a doctor but even though Mama was more lenient to that than investing in a liquor store, brother still got his way and as a result my financial needs to tend to my education was not met.

I said that I wanted to be a doctor, but Walter said that I should stop being crazy and "be a nurse instead like other women-or just get married and be quiet" (38). Equality used to define the American Dream but now the dream has been forcibly pushed and shoved down onto earth-to reality- where it has been poked and prodded until it became the root of stereotypical norms where the sentence "snobbish rich white people [and] snobbish rich colored people" (50) maintains no parallelism.

In a world where day by day protests for women's rights increases and still fails to plant gender equality, how are we expected to rise from this tampered mentality? How are we supposed to step out of this familiar circle or in other words this "mirage" (134)?

"It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!” " (134)

 I believe that we must dream until finally one day our goal for equality is achieved and implemented into reality for if we remain realists, we will remain in this cell forever.

           
                                       

Living in a dream from hell

A long time ago we cried over the fact that the money tree was in fact just a normal tree given a  deceiving name; money doesn't grow on trees. Instead, according to The Diamond As Big As The Ritz by Fitzgerald if you're lucky enough, you might just stumble upon a diamond the size of  "the Ritz-Carlton Hotel" (Fitzgerald 78). The rhetoric use of symbolism of colors and the name itself is used to convey that the root of corruption is in fact wealth. Wealth comes in many forms: love, greed, and the most obvious, dollar bills. This particular satire also uses irony to illustrate how wealth and corruption go hand-in-hand as its not a "once upon a time" a man found a way to escape reality and lived happily ever after, more like I'm-gonna-die-since-I-was-exposed-to-these-unrealistic-riches. With wealth comes a great power of superiority, unfortunately the diamond represents obstruction from reality. It is true that in today's world there are many flaws, but it is also true that living too deeply in a dream can also hinder an individual.

The Washington family live in a place full of pink elephants and where everyone is deemed as inferior. They live to shower in their riches, but at the same time due to their isolation, they are poor in the sense that they do not comprehend what reality even is. Due to a disconnection from the rest of the world, their thought process is much different. To explain, any sane person would agree that murdering people for his/her benefit is NOT okay, but Kismine and her family seem to view this as alright. They think that it would be only fair that they should too get as much pleasure as possible. 

At the end of this short story, the location of the Washington's secret house is found out and bombed by planes. At this point having lost everything, Braddock tries to bribe God saying that he will give him a cathedral in return for clearing the havoc. Unfortunately, Braddock is no Moses and was declined.