Walter Younger is the most promising character in the play A Raisin in the Sun. He hopes to provide for his family, although his hopes may not be the best way to make a living. Throughout the play, he always says that he wants to provide a better life and home for his family. He is so focused on this goal that he fails to realize the impact his dreams have on the rest of his family. Walter Younger has the traits of an African-American man living in Chicago during the era of oppression and wanting to live the American dream. In the play's exposition, Walter is obsessed with the check that comes in the mail and Mom giving him the money. he can open a liquor store with two of his friends, Bobo and Willy. The liquor store is the means by which Walter plans to provide a decent life for his family and himself. He wants to have power over the white man and he believes that the liquor store will make him equal, if not superior, to the white man in times of oppression. He feels vulnerable because he is a driver and because his son, Travis, has to sleep on the couch because they can't afford a bigger place. However, his obsession with his dream has negative consequences on the other members of his family. The money belongs to mom so she decides what to do with it. She plans to put some of it toward tuition for her daughter, Beneatha, to become a doctor. Beneatha and Walter's wife, Ruth, both share the belief that the money belongs to Mom and that she should decide what to do with it. Walter is so obsessed with his dream that he does not notice his wife's misfortune which pushes her to make the decision to abort. His dreams of a better life actually make him realize that he doesn't need a liquor store to make him happy. He needs his family to be happy for him to be happy. Walter matures throughout the story, his American dream disappears and new dreams appear. Walter Younger is the most dynamic character in A Raisin in the Sun. The reader can see the immense change in his character: from the need for money and power to buy his happiness to the happiness of his family which provides him with his happiness. He starts out wanting the liquor store, then he ends up standing up to a racist man so his family can be happy and proud of him. At first he does not realize the misfortune of his wife and mother, but throughout the story he begins to notice it and, in turn, he becomes more mature. Walter faces setbacks in his dreams and happiness, but ultimately he turns out to be a better person because of them..