Fences Troy Maxson Relationship

It is obvious to the audience that Troy and Cory simply do not get along. The two are constantly bickering, mostly about Cory's dream to play football at the college level. Since playing baseball did not get Troy anywhere, he feels that football will not benefit Cory and that Cory should "get recruited in how to fix cars or something where he can make a living" (8). Troy constantly denounces Cory's dream and pressures his son to quit the highschool football team so that he can work at the local grocery store. The verbal abuse of Cory by Troy is enough to make Cory question whether or not his own father even likes him, but it is not until after Troy's affair with Alberta is out in the open that Troy and Cory's unhealthy relationship reaches a whole new level.

Due to the fact that Troy does not want Cory to play sports sets a boundary between the two of them. On page 5 Troy tells Cory “I told that boy a bot that football stuff. The white man ain’t gonna let him go nowhere with that football.” Troy does not want Cory to play football because he feels like he will not get anywhere with it. Another thing that puts a fence between Cory and Troy is jealousy. Troy is jealous of Cory because he actually has a chance to live out his dream and play a sport. When Troy was young and he played baseball it was back in the time of racism so he could not make it to the major baseball league like he wanted to even though he was a great player. On page 27, Cory says to Troy “Just cause you didn’t have a chance! You just scared I’m gonna be better than you, that’s all.” The relationship between Cory and his father is not very good. This could be because Troy is jealous of his son for getting a chance to do something that he could not. This could also be because Troy loves his son very much and does not want to see Cory get his feelings hurt if he does not make it where he wants to with playing

No, I do not believe Cory will become like his father. Troy didn’t show Cory any affection, and all Cory wanted was for his dad to support him. Troy and Cory didn’t have a good relationship. Although Cory showed similar interests as his father, like sports, I don’t see Cory having his father’s authoritarian parenting style. In the story Troy wouldn’t sign Cory permission slip to play football, all Cory wanted was a better life for himself. Troy seems like a father that wanted respect from his children but wasn’t responsive to their needs. When Troy died Cory didn’t want to go to his father funeral. He eventually went to the funeral, and that showed the readers he was a better person than his father, because Cory was able to finally forgive

Cory is very aware that his father is envious of his athletic accomplishments. Troy also has no respect for Lyons and he does not support his dream to be a musician.

This argument between Cory and Troy makes their relationship start to crumble because Troy does not allow Cory to do what makes him happy. In my own opinion, parents and their teenage children have very difficult relationships because teenagers seem to think they are the adult and are capable of making their own decisions. When Cory wants to be an adult and make his

One of the differences that complicate their relationship is that they have grown up in completely different time periods. A great deal has happened between the times when Troy was growing to the time period that Cory is growing up in. This issue itself causes many other concerns. For instance, Cory is a very talented athlete. He would like to play football in college and would probably receive a scholarship

Troy’s misuse of  power in his relationship with Bono causes their relationship to be ruined. In their friendship Troy is the friend who tells Bono what the right thing to do is. Bono look up to Troy and he learned a lot of things from Troy that he can use in the future. In the beginning of the play Bono says, “ I’m like you… I aint got no time for them kind of people” (2). “I’m like you” suggests Bono believes that he can handle situations just like Troy can but Bono really can not because standing up for himself is a struggle.  Mentally, Troy is stronger than Bono, but Bono tries his best to agree with Troy and do whatever he do. But, Towards the end of the story, the soft Bono we knew of finally stood up to Troy. Bono saya “you’s in control… that's what you tell me all the time. You responsible for what you do”, Bono says this to Troy in their conversation about Rose. The phrase “ You’s in control”, states that Troy is always in control of everything he do and he only take responsibility for the things that we want to take responsibilities in, according to Bono. The conversation between Troy and Cory was significant because usually Troy talks down to Bono, but now Bono is talking down to Troy. This is a change for Bono and the reader because Bono would never stand up to Troy and Bono finally expressed his feelings.  After the disagreement between Troy and Cory, Troy loses his close friend because of his misuse in power within their relationship.

Cory was going down the same path Troy went down with sports, and Troy knows this will hurt him in the long run, so he made Cory get a job and do his chores. This makes Cory build up a work ethic and it also teaches him respect and how to deal with bad bosses and people being racist and unfair. A example of this is when Troy tells Cory he will have to quit football if he can't keep up the job and his chores. Cory needed to get a trade, not a talent which means he needs to be good at something people can't segregate, and something people need. Cory needs to get his head clear, and Troy takes him out of football, and this makes Cory very mad but it is for the best.

We see responsibility, obedience, and devotion in father-child relationships in Hamlet. But Troy-Cory relationship in Fences is not the case. Whether the cause is generational gap or Troy's selfishness or Cory's noncompliance, Troy never completely gains the love from his own son even after his death. Their relationship never blooms. Initially, Cory may innocently display his admiration to Troy because of his athletic ability and because of a simple reason: a love from a normal son to his father. Through Rose's word, we know that Cory tries to do as best as he can to earn one compliment from his father, "Everything that boy do...he do for you. He wants you to say "Good job, son." That's all."(I.iii). Unfortunately, there's always a conflict in that relation. Cory asks his father, "How come you ain't never liked me?" and Troy answers, "Liked you? Who the hell say I got to like you?.../ You eat everyday.../ Got a roof over your head.../ Got clothes on your back.../ What you think that is?.../ It's my job./ It's my responsibility!"(I. iii). This conversation between Cory and Troy clarifies everything. Troy doesn't "like" his son. Troy takes care of his family including Cory because of his duty. Troy thinks he "owe" Cory. Of course, there must be some love from Troy to Cory, from a father to his son, but the bitter experiences Troy has in the past soon fence himself in to be a selfish,

In the play fences, the main character Troy Maxson is portrayed as a family man that is misunderstood. Despite his actions towards the end of the play, Troy is caring and is a great family man because he wants what best for them, supports them and because of his troubled past. It may seem as if Troy turned bitter and insane as the play goes on, but he is just misunderstood. He knows how to take care of his family and know what’s best for them.

Each time that Troy speaks to his wife, he asserts a sense of male dominance over her. While having a conversation with Bono, he tells her to “go on back in the house and let me and Bono finish what we was talking about. This is men talk. I got some talk for you later. You know what kind of talk I mean. You go on and powder it up”(1.1.83-85). Although Troy shows compassion to Rose, he repeatedly shows disrespect to her by referring to her as woman, giving her orders to follow, and publicizing their love life to his friends. Troy’s relationship with Cory is tense at the least throughout the play; therefore, when Cory claims that his father does not like him, Troy’s aggression

Troy's treatment of Cory is influenced by the way Troy's father had treated him when he was a child. Troy may have wanted to give his child a better life than he had, but he ends up acting like his father did. As Kenney writes, "It is ironic how near Troy approaches to repeating his own father’s behavior." (1). The finale of Troy and Cory's conflict comes to a close in a similar fashion to Troy's own ultimate confrontation with his father.

If troy doesn’t solve things within himself and with his family, things can only get worse and Troy will lose everything. Moreover, he even showed envy towards Corey, because he was better educated, got good grades, worked a job and still found time to practice football. He certainly had more chances than Troy had growing up. Still, Troy was not proud of Cory, he leaves home just like his father did. The family could've tried harder to make things work, but this did not happen because of the dysfunction and Troy “dies suddenly after swinging a bat in the backyard,"he suddenly fell over”.

The father is trying to help his son avoid the pain of rejection that he himself experienced decades earlier” (Saunders 1). Baseball should present fathers and sons with a bonding experience, But Cory knew he couldn’t compete with His father. Troy has a need for control. He gains the need of control from his own father, he is too deep-rooted for him to control his ways. Although he means the best for Cory, Troy's ends up losing his son, he ends up dying without having ever seen Cory again. After eighteen years of marriage, Troy feels he needs to escape the enclosing walls of responsibility through an affair with another woman. The other woman, Alberta, is Troy's attempt to express what has been lost which is his youth. For example, “If Troy is now too old to play major league baseball, he is not too old to be attractive to other women” (Wilson). That’s what Troy thought when he was seeing this other woman behind Rose's

Troy was jealous of his son but also protective because he didn’t want Cory to deal with the same treatment he had to deal with from being a black athlete during these times. Cory also knew Troy is jealous of him when he says “Just cause you didn’t have a chance! You just scared I’m gonna be better than you, that’s all” (Wilson