Troy Maxson's Relationship In The Glass Menagerie

In Fences by August Wilson and in The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, fathers play a very large role, along with their relationships being affecting and what they want for their children. In Fences the main character, Troy Maxson and one of his family members, Cory are always head to head with one another. Cory and Troy seem to go head to head starting from how Troy’s father would treat him when he was younger. In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Amanda Wingfield is a single mother who was abandoned by her husband she also lives in the past and is worried that her son will repeat it.
Troy Maxson and his father had a complex relationship which in turn led to Troy and his son Cory to have a complicated relationship. Along with the problems Troy faces, Amanda’s family is left in the same position of a complex family. When Troy was younger he did …show more content…
Troy does not want Cory to play football for a living nor does he want him to play football in college, because of this Troy and Cory continuously get into arguments. For example, Troy needs Cory to help him build the fence around their house for Rose "Some people build fences to keep people out...and other people build fences to keep people in. Rose wants to hold on to you all. She loves you" (2.1.32), but because football practice takes up most of his time he never got around to it, until it was too late and their family had already fallen apart. In Amanda’s case she was a failure because she did not mold her children into these people that she wanted them to be "Oh! I felt so weak I could barely keep on my feet! I had to sit down while they got me a glass of water! Fifty dollars' tuition, all of our plans - my hopes and ambitions for you - just gone up the spout, just gone up the spout like that." (2.16), so now she must pay the price. In other forms that are not just