Troy's father found Troy with a girl Troy had a crush on and severely beat Troy with leather reins. Troy thought his father was just angry at Troy for his disobedience, but proving Troy's father was even more despicable, his father then raped the girl. Troy was afraid of his father until that moment.
Troy's father, like many Black people after the abolishment of slavery, was a failed sharecropper.
He is said to be very evil. He ended up treating his family so ruthlessly that the family had to run away from him. Characters like Troy, Cory and Lyons are always chasing the dream of breaking ties with their fathers. However, the fathers seem to cling on the tie so tightly that the sons are unable to break it.
From the beginning, Troy 's father was abusive to his mother and all of his siblings. Troy and his family worked hard on their father 's farm and endured his bitterness towards being a sharecropper. Troy states that his father was greedy and would put his own personal needs above the needs of the family.
According to Troy his father only wanted kids to work, “All he wanted was for you to learn how to walk so he could start you working.” Troy also tells us that his father was a selfish and evil person even going as far as to call him “the devil himself” (Wilson 992).
Before Rose responds, Troy muses that he cheated on his wife because he has felt restrained and worn out due to “standing in the same place for eighteen years” (Wilson 2.1).
Troy always believed the duty to raise and support one's children to be fundamental, almost sacred. He learned this lesson from his own father's example.
Emotionally, Troy has little attachment to his children. He takes little interest in the activities that his children love, like Lyons' musical career, and Cody's football career.
Troy asserts his manhood and role as father by forcing the respect issue with Cory who disrespectfully refuses to say "excuse me" to his father. Troy insists that Cory leave the house and provide for himself since he does not respect him as the man of the house and the breadwinner who provides for Cory.
“Fences” is a film about how our environment shapes us, and how, no matter how noble their intentions, our parents can't help but mess us up in some fashion, just as their parents had done for them. This is our legacy as humans.
Answer and Explanation: In August Wilson's play Fences, Troy is similar to his father a number of different ways. Both men focus on their work, Troy picking up garbage, and his father, baling cotton. Both men show little affection toward their children, expecting them to learn life's lessons through working.
What event changed Troy's relationship with his father? He came down to the stream where him and his girlfriend were and started to whip him. His father wanted the girl for himself so Troy started to whip him back.
Troy's death allows his family, especially Cory, to heal. Troy triumphs over Death because he never lets fear of it control his life.
Another betrayal in the play would be that Troy cheated on his wife with a woman named Alberta. Rose and Troy have been together for eighteen years and that kind of betrayal really took a toll out of the family, especially Rose.
Troy's tragic flaw was his failure to effectively use the metaphoric fence. Rose used a fence to bring people together and to keep them safe as she did by accepting Raynell as her own child.
Not only did he cheat on his wife, he went fathered a child with somebody else. Wilson really keeps the surprises coming with this revelation. We pretty much knew there was an affair going on, but we had no idea about this. Rose feels like Troy has betrayed his brother Gabriel by putting him into a mental institution.
Even though Troy does not physically abuse his children like his father did to him, he verbally abuses them. He treats Cory very callously and unjustly. In a way, Troy is taking out his frustrations of having an unsuccessful baseball career by not allowing Cory to pursue his dream to play football.
Troy had a problem expressing his feelings as a father because as a son, his father did no such thing. Troy loved his son, but just could not show his love. He was hard on Cory because he did not want Cory to waste half of his life on a lost cause (football).
Corey is the character who's attitude fluctuates throughout the entire play. His primary "want" is to play football: go to college for football and eventually play in the professional league. His father however, who recollects his baseball playing years numerous times, forbids his son from doing so to "protect" him.
Antenor was the Trojan hero who betrayed Troy to the Greeks.
According to the ancient Greek epic poet Homer, the Trojan War was caused by Paris, son of the Trojan king, and Helen, wife of the Greek king Menelaus, when they went off together to Troy. To get her back, Menelaus sought help from his brother Agamemnon, who assembled a Greek army to defeat Troy.
Troy Maxson is a classically drawn tragic-hero. He begins the play loved, admired and getting away with his secret affair. But eventually, Troy's death leaves many negative attributes as an inheritance for his family to sort out and accept.
Because Troy refuses to believe that professional sports might treat his son better than they treated him, he holds Cory back in order to protect him from the disappointment and discrimination that Troy endured.
Cory refuses to attend the funeral because he wants to rebel against Troy. Rose tells Cory that skipping his father's funeral won't make him a man.
Answer and Explanation: Troy left his home when he was fourteen, because his father was abusive toward him.