Question

So, what happens to a dream deferred? Why would Lorraine

Hansberry title her play A Raisin In The Sun?

Answer 1

Hansberry names the play after a line in the poem "Harlem" (sometimes called "Dream Deferred"), by the great Harlem Rennaisance poet Langston Hughes. In the poem, Hughes asks: "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?"