e what was best for his family before he tried to benefit from the money for himself. This part of a poem by Langston Hughes best describes his dreams: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun(Hansberry ). That is exactly what happened to Walters dream, it just sat there and dried up like a raisin in the sun because he did nothing about it until he could, and by that time, it was already too late. Luckily, his misfortune had not led to a total disaster, and there was enough money to fix the things that he had messed up in the past. His mother eventually got her dream to come true by using the left over money to buy a house. This title of the book, A Raisin in the Sun, describes the book in a very effective way....