Theme Of Dissatisfaction In August Wilson's Fences

"I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were." Troy talks about his dissatisfaction from playing baseball and how you were treated bad if you weren’t white. He doesn’t even want his own son to have the opportunity to play sports. A college recruiter was going to come by cory’s house to possibly give him the opportunity to go to college and play football, but troy told the recruiter that cory won’t be playing football anymore. He did this because he wanted cory to get his job back but cory was to focused on school and football. In August Wilson’s Fences the theme of dissatisfaction is very important because he turns down and ruins some of the characters lives because he doesn’t know the world changes and black people were now playing sports. …show more content…
First troy lets his son down by telling the college recruiter that cory won’t be playing football anymore. This led to cory being eventually kicked out of the house all because his dad couldn’t see how times have changed. Another time where troy was dissatisfied is when he went and slept with another because he felt better with alberta than rose. The reason troy is hard on cory is because he was denied to play pro baseball when he was younger and he thinks the same thing will happen to