Give an analysis of how Walter's dream is deferred or realized by the end of the play A Raisin in the Sun.

What
other responses fail to analyze much is what s underlying dream actually represents. While
Walter thinks that his latest business venture will lead to financial success, his underlying
desire to become financially independent is motivated by something deeper.

Walter feels as though his racial identity has relegated him to an unsatisfying life of
inferiority. He believes that achieving financial success will bring his family happiness, but
what is most important to him is the respect he believes society will show him once he becomes
rich. The promise of the American Dreamthat anyone can have freedom and successappeals to Walter
because he wrongly thinks this will remove societys ability to control him.

The reason Walters liquor store dream must fail is the same reasons medical school
dream must fail. Both of the Younger children place too much value on money and traditional
measures of success. Hansbury shows that dreams predicated on a dead mans...