... their peers. Where there is a void of this masculinity, a man may feel second rate and there is a need to fill that void. In The play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Lee Younger feels just that. Walter Lee's desperate dream of the liquor store is fueled by his need to feel a sense of honor, ideal manhood and resisting regression to his mother. Walter desperately wants ... . Compulsive masculinity is something that can be seen by Walter as achievable if he could get his store. This is the "the need to relate to stress as a means of proving manhood and conferring on othe...

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