I would cast Denzel Washington for this role as he fits Walter's physical description of a thirty-five year old, physically fit African-American male. Walter Lee Younger is portrayed as a limo driver who possessed ambitious but unrealistic goals of becoming a wealthy black businessman. In (Act 2, Scene 2, p.1063), he had dreamed of his family living in a beautiful home with a gardener greeting them and also wanted to own nice cars and put his son, Travis, to any college of his desire. Walter is the one character who experiences a complete transformation throughout the play from a money hungry person to a proud and high moral value person. A great example of this is on (Act3, Scene 3, p.1075). With his son looking on, he tells Mr. Linder "And we have decided to move into our house because my father-my father-he earned it for us brick by brick. We don't want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we try to be good neighbors. And that's all we got to say about that. We don't want your money". The immaturand materialistic personality of this character does not really match Denzel's persona but I Denzel is a versatile actor that he would be able to immerse himself into this character. Also whenever I think of a young black leading man, Denzel comes to mind all the time.
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