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Exploring The Relationship Between Troy And His Son In Fences By August Wilson

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Would you want your child to have a better experience with life than you did? Most parents when asked would want their children to have a better experience with life and to support them in every way possible. This was not the case between Troy and his son Corey in the play Fences written by August Wilson. Corey had passion and talent for football and had a rare opportunity to play college football on a scholarship. Troy constantly griped that Corey was not doing his chores because of football. Furthermore, Troy did not have a great relationship with either of his sons. This created a tense relationship between the two that eventually ended in turmoil. Troy did not want Corey to have a better experience and opportunity than he had when he was …show more content…

Cory trys everything to be able to play, even if it involves lying to his father about getting his job back at the A&P. Cory wants to have the experience of a lifetime but is unable to due to his father being in control of his fate. Troy gets what he wants of Corey by spending his days and nights at home and working just like he had to experience when he was growing up. Troy turned out to be very much like his father, though striving not to be. Troy mentions that his father di. Troy wanted to be better than his father but did not want either of his sons to be better than he …show more content…

Troy despised his father for many reasons including his father finding Troy with a girl he liked when he was little, then he ended up beating Troy and then raping the little girl. His relationship with his father was far from normal and did not know how to have a normal relationship with his sons. Troy wanted to make the safe or the most traditional decision. It seemed to make sense in Troy’s head just because of the way that Troy was raised, but his traditional thinking was outdated. “The only part of the world I knew was the fourty-two acres of Mr. Lubin’s land. That’s all I knew about life.”(1407) Troy had a bad example growing up and it carried directly into his life. Troy strived greatly to become better than his father but he ended up being just like him to an extent. He wanted to try and limit Cory’s possibilities to become a better man than Troy wanted him to

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Austin Wilson's Fences focuses on an African-American family in the 1950s in Pittsburg, and their troubles. They experienced racism, problems with money and parenting. I believe that Troy is both a good and bad parent, because he financially takes care of his children, doesn't use them for his own benefit, and doesn't listen to what they say. Instead, he does what he thinks is best for them without their input.

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In the powerful play Fences by August Wilson, tension can be found through characters like Troy Maxson, Corey Maxson, and Rose Maxson. Troy Maxson has gone through a life in a country where to be proud and black was to face pressure that could crush a man. Corey Maxson wishes to play football, however, his father wants him to get a job and do “labor work”. Rose Maxson is the wife to Troy Maxson they had a happy relationship until Troy has a child with a woman named Alberta? Troy is the main source of tension in the book.

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As a father he doesn't want his kids to be pushed out of the nest like he was so he protects them and even though it's the opposite of what his kids want. August Wilson characterizes Troy as a serious straight edge guy. Troy only provides for his family and doesn't give much in return. He seems to only be there as there father because it's

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In the play “Fences”, written in 1957 by August Wilson annotates how Troy’s childhood experiences affected his life and put a strain on his relationship with family and friends. Troy’s enormous amount of pride, flaw of judgment, and malicious actions lead to his shortcomings and resulted into him becoming a tragic hero. In the story, Troy had a lot of flaws in his character throughout the play. As Troy was growing up he never had the proper guidance, so he had to take care of himself the best way he could.

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Therefore he starts drinking more, being that he cannot stand not being the center of everyone’s attention. But all the problems he has originated from, and worse than that, he does nothing productive to try and fix any of them. This once again proves that Troy is unsuitable to be a proper father for Cory and a respectable husband for Rose. Troy loses the dignity, respect and even love that was once given to him by his friends and family. His own selfish needs are fuel for the destruction of the life he once knew.

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However, when it comes to most situations, he handles it based on his past. He believes that because he was black, the Major League would not let him on the team. This is seen in a conversation with his son, Cory. Cory wants to play football, but Troy wants him to work at a grocery store called the A&P. Troy ‘knows’ Cory would not really play football anyway even if he got onto the team. “I decided seventeen years ago that boy wasn’t getting involved in no sports.

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In the play Fences by August Wilson, dissatisfaction plays an important role. The main character, Troy, is a tragic hero as he makes decisions that lead to his own destruction. These decisions are fueled by his discontent with life. To a large extent, dissatisfaction fuel Troy’s relationships, negative decisions, and lead to his downfall as a tragic hero. The first time that the audience sees Troy’s dissatisfaction is when he is talking about his job.

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Troy chose to escape his reality by having an affair that gives him some laughs and good time every now and then. However, despite the flaws in Troy’s character, he was a providing family man who wants to insure a better life of his sons than the one he had. Based on the play’s time period, which took place at the 50’s, apparently the main problem of Troy Maxson’s character was racism against African Americans at the time that had prevented him from achieving his dreams. Throughout the play, Troy expresses his dissatisfaction in several scenes with the other characters.

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He persistently criticizes and neglects his two sons, which thus draws them away from him. Troy pushes Lyons away by refusing to hear him play his "Chinese music". He also scars hisrelationship with his other son, Cory, by preventing him from playing football and rejecting his onlychance to get recruited by a college football team. Also, Troy states that Cory's things will "be on theother side of that fence" when he kicks Cory to the street. Through this scene Troyacknowledges the fence as an actual, physical divide between him and his son.

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Troy’s outlook on life is more narrow minded however, his family is more optimistic for a better future. Troy was raised by a very dominate male figure who was abusive. His father would be little him and made him like he would not be able to overcome racism. Troy despised his father who was mean and never showed him any love.

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He has a softer tone in the dialogue with Rose which shows that he does care about Cory. He is tough on Cory because he doesn’t want his son to experience the same things as he, as a black male in the mid-century, endured. He believes that a sturdy hand will lead his son in the right direction and prepare him for a harsh world. Troy tells Rose, “He’s got to make his own way. I made mine.

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Troy is controlling and often verbally abusive to his family members because he lacks a sense of control in other areas of his life, he is unable to achieve his dream of becoming a pro-baseball player or advance in his career and this makes him feel inadequate. Troy’s wife Rose represents a stereotypical mother and dutiful wife role. Rose has two disadvantages in her life because she is not only African American, she is also a woman and in some ways she is the wife you would expect during the 1950s era. Rose however, is not weak minded because she recognizes how times have changed and this what makes Troy and Rose so drastically different throughout the play. Their contrasting ideologies represent two different aspects of the “African American Experience” by showing a major question many African Americans faced during the 1950s and that is: “are times really changing?.”

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