Fences by August Wilson - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages... Rose is distressed and talks how she "planted my seed" in Troy, realizing well that it will not "bloom."(Wilson, 2000, p.101) When Troy grips her arm, Cory comes from his back and pushes Troy down. Troy is torn in two, since he lives in two houses simultaneously, but none of them is his real home.
"The next scene picks up when Troy leaves to see Alberta at the hospital. He comes back carrying Raynell, the baby, and news that Alberta died during childbirth. When Troy asks Rose act as Raynell's mother, she complies but tells Troy that he is now a "womanless man." (Wikipedia, 2003, par.7) Troy has a terrible row with Cory and kicks him out from home, thus, Cory has to earn his living.
In some time, Troy dies, and it is highlighted that he had got to paradise.
Fences is a drama about a national, American leisure. The famous white baseball player, Babe Ruth, died at the age of 53; Troy is 53 at the beginning of the play, and a comparison of Ruth and Troy is both persuasive and relevant. Babe Ruth had all traits Troy has: large-spirited, alcohol drinker, womanizer and physically strong. It goes in accordance with August Wilson's purpose, probably, to describe their different destinies. If Yankee Stadium is, by reputation, associated with Ruth, then Troy is associated with fairly different things: a back-alley of Pittsburgh, the life his family has on his garbage man's salary, the rag ball he hits with a dirty boot.
The era described by Wilson-- the end of 1950s and the sunrise of the civil rights campaigns -- enables a dark experience of the past to conflict with the developing hope of the future. 'Troy, distrustful of his own experience, consequently fails to understand his son's aspirations. Troy, a responsible man belittled...
In a relationship, people should trust each other and appreciate those who are closest to them. ‘Troy is a father and husband who makes the decision derived from human imperfection and outside variables, to commit adultery and become involved in another relationship with a woman. By examining the racial tension of the late nineteen fifties, in combination with Troy's past life experiences and the events that unfold in the play, one can understand Troy's choice to commit adultery’. Troy doesn’t know how to cope with the emotions he has towards his surroundings, so instead of trying to make friends with people he pushes them away. At the end of the play, “Fences”, Troy has driven out from his life so many people that it looks like he is living surrounded by strangers. Though being supported by an excellent support system, wife and best friend, Troy is feeling alone as he had constructed fences to make the people he needs stay emotionally detached from him. Troy, his father, and for a short time his son, in a description of how these men serve to embody the conflict of men and how those conflicts are often inherited from generation to generation. As one can see from this paper, Troy’s tragedy is his inability to look at the life from the other, more positive angle, and to understand that his real success is his family and friends, who always support him. ...Download file to see next pagesRead More