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Dreams and illusions can cause people to become lost in false hopes. Some dreams come true and others do not. In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman, two characters, Walter Lee and Willy Loman have dreams of supporting their families by themselves but things do not turn out the way they expect. Throughout the play, A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee provides an everyman perspective of the mid- twentieth-century African-American male. He is the typical man of the family who struggles to support it and who tries to discover new, better schemes to secure its economic prosperity. Difficulties and barriers that obstruct his and his family's progress to attain that prosperity constantly frustrate Walter. He believes that money will solve all of their problems, but he is