The Portrayal Of Troy In Troy's Fences

Troy Maxson can be very difficult and complicated to understand. He a strong, Man who really don’t like to show his emotion. Troy has his reasons for everything, but he doesn’t realize that his reaction effect everything that closely surrounding him like his family and friends. In this essay I will be discussing about how troy reactions effect the characters and how did the story portray him in this play. Throughout the play Troy mention about his early years of his childhood. He never really had a close relationship with his father. He was young when he left home to move up north. In Act 1 Scene 4 troy reminisce about him. His father was a sharecropper who raised eleven kids on his own. Troy never had an easy life, his father was abusive and cruel. Troy stated….
“He could see why the devil had never come to get him…cause he was the devil himself” (Act 1 Scene 4 Page -1576) he said this after he saw that his father try to sleep with Joe Canewell’s daughter. Troy was upset and embarrassed not the fact that his father caught him at the creek with Canewell’s daughter, but the fact that he had so much anger build up toward him that he started to fight. Reading act 1 scene 4 made me think about troy and Cory relationship in a different way and …show more content…
I say this because it was a matter of time that he would have a downfall after everything he been through in his life. Despite everything he had done I feel sorry in some ways. All his life he experience what his father had did this his mother, sibling even himself, now when he got older he did the same what his father had done. Troy was living in the time where blacks didn’t have much freedom to do things. You can’t blame a man who still stuck on the past that don’t want to open his eyes and see what new in the world that his sons is living in. Troy was an example of a tragic hero has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a