August Wilson Dreams

Hopes and dreams are a part of life. They are something that can start at a very young age, and people have a way of showing their persona by how they plan their future. In the play Fences by August Wilson shows how hopes and dreams play a part in someone’s life. A lot of people’s dreams won’t always be fulfilled. Characters like Cory and his father, Troy both had dreams that couldn’t be fulfilled because of certain complications. There were complications like, Troy not playing baseball in the big leagues. Things aren’t always the way you want it so you gotta live with it. Dreams, hopes and plans is an important theme in Fences because the plans for the future, the hopes for family, and the dreams of sanctuary play a significant part in the play. The character that had the most plans was Cory. He was the one that had the chance to have a tremendous future until Troy ruined it. When …show more content…
Rose wanted her family to last as long as possible. Rose told Troy, “I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams...and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and waited and prayed over it” (2.1). She just wanted their marriage to work out. When Troy told her that he was going to be a father to another child; all her hopes for her relationship with Troy went down the drain. In the text, Rose states in (2.1), “I gave everything I had to try and erase the doubt that you wasn’t the finest man in the world.” The goals she had for life is were ruined by the carelessness of her husband. Troy also had Troy didn’t want his hopes for the family to fade away either.Troy said to Rose, “When I found you and Cory and a halfway decent job...I was safe...I wasn’t going back to the penitentiary. I wasn’t gonna lay in the streets with a bottle of wine. I was safe. I had a family” (2.1). Troy set his goals for his family, but he messed it up by not staying loyal to