It is because, on the one hand, her dream when she first moved into that place in Chicago's Southside to buy a house, fix it up, and make herself a little garden in the backyard didn't happen (Hansberry 45). Or, as she says, "didn't none of it happen- (Hansberry 45). She became too busy and occupied rearing her then-young family. For her, the initial plan with her husband to save and only stay in that apartment (if one can call it that) for no more than a year became nearly a lifetime (Hansberry 44-45). And, with that the "hopeless social conditions- that have forced them to "defer their dreams until their own strength and pride help them struggle toward opportunity,"" as Diana Marre says in her essay on Lorainne Hansberry ("Lorainne Hansberry- 453). As like the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery that now fights to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies and couch covers [ ],"" she now struggles to keep her dream from drying up after now experiencing acres of life's burdens and tribulations (Hansberry 23). In many respects, it is too late in her life to enjoy the house that she has purchased because she is nearing old age and death; the youth she once had is a distant past. Yet at the same time, and on the other hand, her shared subtler and greater dream with her husband of providing a better way of life and living for her family fills and moistens. Despite she and her family being in the ghetto because they are Negroes, as commentated by Hansberry herself, her ability to provide a house and new home for her family through her late husband's insurance money replenishes the desolate condition of their shared, worthwhile dream (Marre 454). Her revelation to Travis of having bought a new home for his eventual inheritance, her description to Walter of how there are three bedrooms and a yard where she can grow some flowers, and her affirmative response to Ruth's question of whether there is a whole lot of sunlight there act as clear indicators of her happiness for this accomplishment and progress from her family's current socio-economic position (Hansberry 91-92; 94).
