Fatherhood is one family responsibility that Troy believes he excels in. Troy has two son that …show more content…
Cory respects his father and will try to Troy any chance he gets. He takes up football, to have something in common with Troy, who played baseball when he was younger. Cory has been in the attention of recruiters at school which give him the opportunity to go to college. Troy doesn’t like this idea at all because “The white man aint gonna let him get nowhere with that football” (1.1). Troy doesn’t like the idea that his child can do better than he turned out. Troy played baseball when he got out of jail, but he was too old to go in the major league and become a famous baseball star. Rose tries to explain to Troy that “Times have changed a lot since then” (1.1).Troy is stuck in the world that he grew up in. He believes that Cory will have the same problem because if it happened to him, it will happen to Cory as well. Troy hangs on to his terrible past and builds fences around the relationships in his own