Beneatha Character Analysis

For my character I chose Beneatha. Beneatha’s dream was to become a doctor. Her dream was not achieved in the play because she didn’t have enough money to go to college. In my opinion she would have never achieved her dream. I say this because her family was against her becoming a doctor. They didn’t have any faith in her and would always make jokes about her becoming a doctor. I feel this would have caused Beneatha to not achieve her dream because she would feel nobody was on her and she would soon not care about the dream. In the end of the play Beneatha stated, “It used to matter. I used to care. I mean about people and how their bodies hurt…” ( Hansbery 88). This shows that she did give up hope at the end of the play and this is why her