Working Hard On Dreams

You should hold onto your dreams; if you work hard enough for them, they will come true

In the book, Beneatha dreams of going to medical school and becoming a doctor. She has been going to college for it and really wants to have money and live a good life eventually. When Walter accidentally loses the money, she loses hope on these dreams. She is very angry at her brother. She believes that when that money is gone, so are her dreams. It turns out that Asagai convinces her differently and also asks her to marry him.

In a different part of the book, Mama dreams of getting a different house and having a better place for Travis to be growing up in. She uses some of her husbands life insurance money for this purpose. She goes and buys a different house and finally gets what she always wanted. Everyone is happy about it except Walter, but he does finally come around.