A Raisin in the Sun Dynamic Character

In the Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, one character stuck out to me as a dynamic character. Walter, the new man of the house, after his father's death, strikes a crucial change. He realizes that the family's hopes are bigger than him. While in the beginning, and almost to the end, Walter is bitterly obsessed with opening a liquor store, seeing that as his only way to move up in life. Walter sees his ambitions as dramatically more important than the rest of the family's, and as such promotes them in that fashion. After Mama puts the down payment on the house, Walter tries to put her into a guilt trip, so she will give him the money. He never stops to think that he is not only putting his goals in front of the rest of the family, but using his goals to squash the rest of the family's goals. When he uses both the money allotted for his investing, and for his sister's medical school, for his liquor store venture, Walter's ego hits the top. He then later comes down to realize that his family is more important than he is individually. Walter says "We arwe very proud people. And that's my sister over there and she's going to be a doctor..." (Hansberry 532). Walter understands the family's source of hope is the new house, and that their dreams would fit together around the structure of the house.