In the play “Fences” by August Wilson, Rose tries to convey to her husband, Troy, that she had given up as much things for him as he has done for her. To express her feelings, Rose makes use of anaphora and hyperbole to accentuate her feelings for him while symbolising their love as a plant. The most obvious figurative language in the passage is how Rose uses anaphora. “I been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy… What about my life? What about me.” Rose’s use of anaphora allows Troy to reconsider what Rose might me thinking with more validity. Her anaphora combined with the shock of her information gives each sentence an impact although the beginning is repetitive. This portrays Troy as a guy who is nearsighted and did not realize the needs of his wife. …show more content…
Secondly, Rose extends Troy’s use of hyperbole to make an argument for herself.
“I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot as you.” In this quote, Rose is saying that her life has been in the same spot so she can be with Troy. It would be nearly impossible to say that she has been standing on the same spot as Troy but what she says emphasizes that Troy has limited her capabilities as a person. Furthermore, this means that Troy is not the only person that gave up a lot of things and furthers the message that he also took a lot out of Rose. Finally, Rose symbolizes her dreams as a plant to show Troy that she really did give him everything. “I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams...and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it... the soil was hard and rocky” Symbolism is important in understanding what Troy’s family thinks of him because Rose says he wasn’t the best for her but she didn’t care. This relates to how Troy’s family views him as someone who isn’t that perfect but they don’t care. Additionally, Rose appears to sense some sort of arrogance inside Troy because he does not see her
aspirations. Rose uses anaphora to shock Troy into realizing how much she has done for him. Her use of hyperbole extends that and emphasizes what she had done while the symbolism of her dreams as a plant set to show that she knows that he is not perfect. Troy’s family views him as someone who is imperfect and someone who gets a lot of things wrong. However, Rose also emphasizes that she loves him whatever he does for who he is. “Wasn’t never gonna bloom. But I held on to you.”
...e he ruined his marriage by cheating on her. Rose takes care of Troy’s newborn baby Raynell because she believes that Raynell needs a mother figure in her life and not a worthless man; she then kicks Troy out of the house. After Troy dies, Rose forgives him. Rose married Troy after he was released from prison. Troy knows that he is unsuccessful in accomplishing what he wanted for him and his family. Troy is a garbage man who feels that the white man kept him from doing a lot of things that he wanted to do in life. Troy does not have many goals in life. Troy is in own little world and does not like to be judged.
Even at a young age, she knows how to focus on a small enclosed area and try to achieve success; this is something Troy learns very late in life when he tries to build a fence around all that he holds valuable. He begins to build the fence only after confessing the truth to Rose; by then it is too late to protect his valuables because he has already lost his most precious one, his relationship with his wife. The similar symbols of the father figure, the "other woman," and the garden, in Death of a Salesman and Fences, are used to develop the similar themes of father-son conflicts, marital conflicts, and the need to leave one's mark of success on the world. The main difference is that while Willy plants seeds by himself to see them grow, Troy's garden is planted by Raynell, his "seed."
... way to work it out” (2.1.63). He believes that he is capable of balancing his marriage and the affair. However, the situation does not go the way Troy expected: because of his mistress’s pregnancy, he has to reveal the extramarital relationship to his wife Rose: “I’m gonna be a daddy. I’m gonna be somebody’s daddy” (2.1.66). On account of obstinacy, Troy refuses to admit his fault and apologizes but asks Rose to take care of the baby, causing a marriage crisis. Rose tells him “This child got a mother. But you a womanless man” (2.3.79). By saying this, Rose takes her stand: she will take care of the baby, but not stand for what Troy does. Ignoring Bono’s advice, Troy’s stubbornness makes Rose to break with him.
Rose, Troy’s wife in the play was the obvious voice of reason between the two; all she wanted was an interrupted happy family life. The fences that she put up were not physical fences but rather emotional and psychological ones used to keep her family in
Troy is the type of person that only cares about himself and will only do things that benefit him. He does not care about who hurts while doing it as long as he benefits he is satisfied. When Troy was telling Rose about getting Alberta pregnant his excuse was that he, “just might be able to steal second”(2.1.118). Troy was unsatisfied with still being on “first”. He was tired of Rose and the way his life was he just wanted something different. Troy just wanted to steal second. He did not care about how his actions may affect Rose and his family he just did what would make him happy. Troy has no sympathy for anyone in his life. He knows his actions affect everyone around him negativity but he does not care because it is beneficial to him. Being unsympathetic to the people he supposedly loves also proves why Troy is the villain of this
... money – is often shown to be a man) where Rose is left to lead to her motherly, nurturing role (though an oversimplification, as Rose has her own power – the mother is not weak – Rose does end up taking care of his child with another woman). These duties each have, the obligations Rose feels to Troy, the responsibility Troy feels to his family, show the usual ideas of the man and woman in society. In addition, the dominant, demanding way Troy treats his family and the selfishness he shows all contribute to the image of a slightly arrogant and entitled man with traditionally masculine characteristics. Rose, in contrast, takes up the position of a doting wife, and her bitterness because of this is unveiled after Troy tells her of his affair. Like with many of his other characters, Wilson uses Rose and Troy to depict the social opinions, beliefs, and situations of
The theme of August Wilson’s play “Fences” is the coming of age in the life of a broken black man. Wilson wrote about the black experience in different decades and the struggle that many blacks faced, and that is seen in “Fences” because there are two different generations portrayed in Troy and Cory. Troy plays the part of the protagonist who has been disillusioned throughout his life by everyone he has been close to. He was forced to leave home at an early age because his father beat him so dramatically. Troy never learned how to treat people close to him and he never gave any one a chance to prove themselves because he was selfish. This makes Troy the antagonist in the story because he is not only hitting up against everyone in the play, but he is also hitting up against himself and ultimately making his life more complicated. The discrimination that Troy faced while playing baseball and the torment he endures as a child shape him into one of the most dynamic characters in literary history.The central conflict is the relationship between Troy and Cory. The two of them have conflicting views about Cory’s future and, as the play goes on, this rocky relationship crumbles because Troy will not let Cory play collegiate football. The relationship becomes even more destructive when Troy admits to his relationship with Alberta and he admits Gabriel to a mental institution by accident. The complication begins in Troy’s youth, when his father beat him unconscious. At that moment, Troy leaves home and begins a troubled life on his own, and gaining a self-destructive outlook on life. “Fences” has many instances that can be considered the climax, but the one point in the story where the highest point of tension occurs, insight is gained and a situation is resolved is when Rose tells Troy that Alberta died having his baby, Raynell.
...laws. A tragic flaw Troy has is when cheats with a woman behind Rose's back. Another flaw would be Troy becoming both a victim and a victimizer. He is victimized by many factors such as by his race, the way his father treated him, growing up in poverty, as well as the society that surrounds him; Troy shows why he is considered as victimizer as well when controls or try to take advantage of Cory, and Rose. Wilson portrays Troy as a man worthy of respect and admiration because his intentions are well-meaning. He has overcome many trials in his life and is a father that may not be perfect but nevertheless is still there for his boys. In Wilson’s personal life he never had a fatherly experience. As a result he is sending a message to the reader that it is better to have a father there that is less than perfect than having a “rolling stone” for a father.
It is indicated that Troy is living an illusion when he tells his story about his encounter with “Death.” Troy describes it as a real life event, as a wrestling match, however the fact that Death, as a character, is a mythical being shows how he’s living in a fantasy. It is made clear that Troy refuses to see the realism of the events that he describes. Rose states that Troy is speaking of a day in which he had a fever bringing reality into the story. Troy, however, ignores and continues with his fictionalized story portraying how he refuses to accept the reality of the events. Furthermore, once it is pointed out that Troy changes the details of the story he denies it and states that he’s telling the “facts.” This shows how Troy refutes, and denies, any evidence of the realism of the stories he
Throughout the life of Emily Grierson, she remains locked up, never experiencing love from anyone but her father. She lives a life of loneliness, left only to dream of the love missing from her life. The rose from the title symbolizes this absent love. It symbolizes the roses and flowers that Emily never received, the lovers that overlooked her.
Rose, Troy wife, was married 18 years she took care of the household using Troy paycheck. “And other people build fences to keep people in (Act 2), she wanted Troy to build a fence to try and keep the family together. However, that did not work Troy still
Alberta, the girl involved in Troy’s extramarital affair, gives birth to a baby girl and dies during pregnancy. Having overcome with sympathy for the innocent infant, Rose becomes a surrogate mother for Alberta’s and Troy’s baby, Raynell. Such growth in responsibilities triggers Rose’s transformation “from a passive homemaker to an enraged woman” (Shannon 4). The “homemaker” that Rose embodied symbolizes submission and suppression. Rose sacrifices her power to comfort her family and above all, Troy. Troy, due to Rose’s submission, remains stagnant in his belief that he is infallible and allowed to hold his responsibilities off for ephemeral gratifications. Rose, initially, bears the most weight because she has to intake Troy’s attitude of superiority, originated from his inability to overcome his vocational shortcomings, and transform such negative synergy into motherhood to not only Cory, but Lyons, Raynell, and Gabe. Rose is simply consumed by her obligations, and she is simply not given the luxury and time to exercise her power. Rose’s passive nature toward her marriage and family cracks, and her withheld desire to exert power over Troy erupts because she could no longer hold the burdens of both her obligations as a submissive partner and a family caretaker. Like Troy, Rose remained stagnant. However, she now is enraged and welcomes change. By becoming a surrogate mother
Rose wanted troy, her husband, to build a fence around the house, so she could keep the family in and be safe. Rose wants things to stay the same and the family to get along. For example “and you know I ain’t never wanted no half nothing in my family…. My whole family is half” (2.1). So she saying that she want her family to be a whole instead of being a half, cause that’s what she always had her whole life. Rose’s brothers and sisters all were half brothers and sisters because all, Troy wanted to be out of the fence at first,
This is the reason why Troy fights against his family and himself, because he feels like he is the only one who can protect them. To Cory and Rose, Troy is destroying the family because of his stubborn thoughts but to Troy he is saving the family from falling apart and this distrust causes the family to eventually fall apart. Troy really does try his hardest to be a good father and is bothered by the fact that Rose and Cory do not see it as him trying to protect them but more of him destroying the family. This hurts Troy because his family is his everything they are what he “fights” for he works day end and day out to put food on the table and try to give them a life he thinks the deserve. August Wilson in “fences” Troy says, “ I love this woman, so much it hurts. I love her so much… I done run out of ways to love her.”(1.1) Wilson uses to show how much Troy actually cares for his wife, to Troy Rose is his everything, she is the light in his darkness, she try’s to guide him back to a sane man. Another Way Wilson shows how much Troy loves his family is when Troy is talking to his family and says that “ You all line up at the door, with your hands out. I give you the lint from my pockets. I give you my sweat and my blood…”(1.3) Troy is saying that he will give them everything until he has absolutely nothing but the lint from his pockets. He will go out of his way to make
This shows that the love Rose have Troy is real because what woman would stay with someone who cheated on her? To make things worst for Rose is that because of the affair, Troy resulted in having a daughter. The bond that Rose and Troy have had broken into pieces as soon as she found out that he had an affair. The last member of his family that shown up in the play is Gabriel. Gabriel Maxson have several problems because of World War I that he ended up with some personal difficulties. Because of them problems, Troy used the money to benefit himself and his family. Troy been the one to always take care of Gabriel growing up and he still is today. If Gabriel get into any kind of trouble, Troy always be the one to bail he out. What are some of the things that Troy used Gabriel for? August Wilson mentions that the house the Maxson family lives in is paid for because of the money Gabriel gets for his injury.