August Wilson’s “Fences” depicts black man’s, Troy’s, struggle in the white man’s world. The color of the body was a determining factor if a person’s position and role in a society. Though, an outstanding baseball player in prison, Troy’s professional career was disappointing because of the color barrier in Baseball League. Being abandoned by his mother, being raised by an abusive father and being African American in a racist culture, life becomes a real struggle for him. Troy thinks that the world didn’t give him what he deserved and the defeat in career defeats Troy mentally and makes him tragic figure and villain at the same time. Troy’s life is full of disappointment. His childhood is founded in lost and betrayal. His ugly upbringing forces
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The past is a total failure because his soul can’t reach peace and joy:” It’s just…she gives me a different idea…a different understanding about myself. I can step out of this house and get away from the pressures and problems…be a different man. I ain’t got to wonder how I’m gonna pay the bills or get the roof fixed. I can just be a part of myself that I ain’t never been.” At this point Troy is both the villain and tragic person because he totally lost control over his own destiny. His family is the source of burden, pressure and problems. The love and fulfillment between him and Rose isn’t as strong as he described earlier himself and not as strong to suppress and cure the problems. Here Troy is materially responsible, but as a husband and father he is otherwise selfish, self-indulgent and emotionally irresponsible. He forgets that Rose endured life with him:” I been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy. I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don’t you think I ever wanted other things? Don’t you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me?” Instead of thinking about Rose’s feelings he tries to replace his emotions at the expense of Rose. The fact that Troy never really worked on the fence, which Rose asked to build, shows that he wants to escape from the family and the fence will be a hindrance. But, God
The past is a total failure because his soul can’t reach peace and joy:” It’s just…she gives me a different idea…a different understanding about myself. I can step out of this house and get away from the pressures and problems…be a different man. I ain’t got to wonder how I’m gonna pay the bills or get the roof fixed. I can just be a part of myself that I ain’t never been.” At this point Troy is both the villain and tragic person because he totally lost control over his own destiny. His family is the source of burden, pressure and problems. The love and fulfillment between him and Rose isn’t as strong as he described earlier himself and not as strong to suppress and cure the problems. Here Troy is materially responsible, but as a husband and father he is otherwise selfish, self-indulgent and emotionally irresponsible. He forgets that Rose endured life with him:” I been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy. I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don’t you think I ever wanted other things? Don’t you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me?” Instead of thinking about Rose’s feelings he tries to replace his emotions at the expense of Rose. The fact that Troy never really worked on the fence, which Rose asked to build, shows that he wants to escape from the family and the fence will be a hindrance. But, God