In my opinion, the whole book was based on deferred dreams. In the beginning, Langston Hughes read a poem about what happens to deferred dreams. He asked an essential question, do deferred dreams dry up like a raisin in the sun? Challenging the reader to think what really happens to dreams put off to the side. In the novel, Walter Lee was a huge dreamer. He had so much ambition but felt he had very little motivation around him. Walter felt no one in his family would support his dream, and that they were all weighing him down when they should be uplifting him. Walter felt misunderstood but all while, his family was just trying to help him, they wanted him to be happy but Walter wasn’t making smart decisions. Blinded by ego gratification, Walter
