Learning to Like Summer How can personal experiences change a person’s attitude? This question is answered through Lorraine Hansberry’s “On Summer.” In this narrative, the main character and author, Lorraine, has a disfavorable impression of summer. However, through certain experiences, she realizes that it is a season to be greatly appreciated. “Summer was a mistake,” according to Lorraine. It was an “utter overstatement” that consisted of displeasurable things like “grainy sand, cold waters, …showed first 75 words of 448 total…

…showed last 75 words of 448 total…wishes and dreams. Fall, with its “pretentious melancholy,” can’t do this, and the austere winter can’t do it either. Not even the “frivolous spring, full of false promises” could measure up to the intensity and beauty of summer in Lorraine’s eyes. Hearing that the woman battling cancer did indeed get to see another summer just cemented these newfound beliefs for her, and is proof that experiences can change a person’s attitude.