African American Dream: A Reading of Mulatto and A Raisin in the Sun.

African-American Dream is counter narrative to American Dream. To attract more people in American system of melting pot, America circulated a myth called American Dream. The idea was that any person irrespective of caste, creed, color and gender could rise above social ladder and become successful thereby rich, provided one works hard with sincerity. This paper argues that this popular version of American Dream was a nightmare for blacks in America. They could not realize or concretize it despite being hard workers, diligent and honest. Both the plays Mulatto and A Raisin in the Sun materialize this aspect. In the former Robert, a Mulatto boy is barred from attending the college by his white father. He cannot use his father's surname because his father is ashamed of accepting his intelligent son as his own. He cannot enter in his own father's hall through the front gate. Similarly, in the latter, a black family struggles hard to realize its dream of a better house in healthy neighbourhood. They want to buy a clean house in white neighbourhood so that they could live a healthy life but, unfortunately they are threatened to do the otherwise. Their money is stolen, and they are deprived of minimum basic chance of rising high up in their social position. Hence American Dream was only possible for whites not for blacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]