Fences Troy Character Analysis

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Troy would be viewed as a tragic figure in the play because he tries to do good by teaching life lessons in the play, but he failed to demonstrate some of them that which tampers with his relationships throughout Fences .Troy teaches Lyons responsibility by showing him the influence his dad. Troy displays his idea of people should do right by you when he chooses to shop at Bella’s instead of the A and P which is cheaper. Also, he fails to demonstrate it by doing wrong by Bono and Rose when he had an affair with Alberta. Troy tries to teach Cory that he should focus on getting a real job because it is very likely that football won’t work out, that is why Troy gets mad that Cory lied about his job and tells Cory’s coach he can’t play anymore.

His belief in that idea is that because of his past bad experience playing baseball in the Negro …show more content…

Troy tells Lyons how troy’s father wasn’t the best dad and really didn’t care but those kids were his so he stayed. (pg 50 & 51) Troy afterward follows up with telling him to get a job. He tells him that he shouldn’t be living off Bonnie. He wants the best for Lyons because he wasn’t necessarily in Lyons life because he was in jail. But now he wants Lyons to do good and get a good to provide for himself. Troy tells him that to show responsibility. He does good demonstrating responsibility with Cory and Lyons but fails at demonstrating his motto “people doing right by you”. (pg.7)

He fails with doing right by people. First, he fails to do right by rose. He cheats on her with Alberta and gets Alberta pregnant. (pg.66) He has been with Rose for eighteen years and now he wants to cheat. He didn’t do right by Rose because she says “Don’t you think I ever wanted other things?”(pg.70). She wanted to experience other things too but she didn’t. She did right him and he failed to do right by her. Just like how he failed to not be

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