This event relates to Langston Hughes poem, "What happens to a dream deferred?" I think this event relates more closely to this certain poem because Walter's dream of making an investment was shattered as was the family's dream of getting their house. Langston Hughes says, "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... I think this dream is best described by Dunbar's poem, "We Wear the Mask". ... A piece I found from the poem useful was when Dunbar says. ...