In Wilson's play Fences, black men and women are stereotyped due to several factors. The play took place after World War II when women had replaced men in their roles. After the war was over, many women wanted to keep these jobs but were again replaced by men and thus remaining at home to play their initial roles. Rose, Troy's husband has been portrayed as an extremely maternal figure in the play (Grabowski, 2013). She is presented as a strong stereotypical mother who plays the role of taking care of her legitimate and illegitimate children. Although she responsibly plays her motherly roles, these roles are stereotypical due to the fact that she is left to take care of Troy's family from a previous marriage, Lyon and Raynell, a girl she adopts
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He works to ensure his family's economic struggle are met. However, his struggles are met with challenges at his workplace for he works as a garbage collector despite the fact that he had trained as a tennis player. As opposed to his friend Bono, Troy challenges the rules which governed his work asking why only the whites were allowed to drive trucks while the black was preserved with odd jobs. The same situation has been described by Patricia in her book when a domestic worker challenges the rules which governed her work (Patricia, 143). Women are presented as activists who are focused on uplifting the group and stop living under the control of the white supremacists. The domestic worker is presented as a representative of black women who work together as groups in order to help them survive a well as be …show more content…
Rose takes care of Gabriel who was injured during the war. The government which is led by Whites does not compensate him as he is supposed to because of being black. He ends up suffering emotionally and mentally. This stereotyping can also be compared to a case in Black Feminist Thought where a black family is found brutally murdered by whites and no appropriate action is taken. Moody is a daughter of a very caring mother whose aim is to protect her daughter from the outside world of white power. This shows how children stereotype their mothers as strong women despite the challenges they go through (Patricia,
He works to ensure his family's economic struggle are met. However, his struggles are met with challenges at his workplace for he works as a garbage collector despite the fact that he had trained as a tennis player. As opposed to his friend Bono, Troy challenges the rules which governed his work asking why only the whites were allowed to drive trucks while the black was preserved with odd jobs. The same situation has been described by Patricia in her book when a domestic worker challenges the rules which governed her work (Patricia, 143). Women are presented as activists who are focused on uplifting the group and stop living under the control of the white supremacists. The domestic worker is presented as a representative of black women who work together as groups in order to help them survive a well as be …show more content…
Rose takes care of Gabriel who was injured during the war. The government which is led by Whites does not compensate him as he is supposed to because of being black. He ends up suffering emotionally and mentally. This stereotyping can also be compared to a case in Black Feminist Thought where a black family is found brutally murdered by whites and no appropriate action is taken. Moody is a daughter of a very caring mother whose aim is to protect her daughter from the outside world of white power. This shows how children stereotype their mothers as strong women despite the challenges they go through (Patricia,