Irony In Wilson's Fences

Even though Troy had become blind to the changes of the past ten years, it was the ignorance that provoked him to deny Cory's chance at succeeding. Which is were we start to see the true relationship toward the two. Often we tend to see fathers use their sons to achieve the success they feel they have been denied to in the past. But Troy had no desire to live vicariously through his son, instead, their relationship began to result in a confrontation that turns into violence. After having been told by his own father that he was earning strikes, Cory grabs the baseball bat and intents to swings at his father. Which was the strikeout Troy had warned his son on? However the only thing that happened was that Cory swung twice, missed, thus making

Instead, father and son vying for the bat transformed into a weapon, and savage combat erupts.” Wessling had thought that baseball should have provided father and son bonding time, with an opportunity for playful competition. Instead, Cory could not compete with Troy, since Troy was always so angry. Wessling thought that Troy's need for control, a pattern he learned from his own father, was too ingrained for him to soften his ways. Although Troy meant the best for Cory, Troy's misdirected efforts resulted in losing his

In the 1950s, women were restrained by traditional roles and the division of private and public spheres. Men functioned in the public sphere; they left the home to go to there jobs. In contrast, women primarily functioned in the private sphere of home and domestic chores, while the men were the breadwinners. When Rose is confronted with Troy's infidelity, she may choose to remain in the marriage, but that choice does not signify that she is accepting or helpless. During her marriage, Rose allowed Troy to fill her life. She tells Troy, “I took all my feelings, my wants, and needs, my dreams ... and I buried them inside you.” Nonetheless, Troy's betrayal forces Rose to reassess her position, according to Harry Elam in “May All Your Fences Have Gates”. This reassessment, noted Elam, means new avenues of freedom that “affirm rather than assault traditional gender limitations.” Basically what this means was that Rose substituted her church for her husband. When, at the end, Rose tells Troy that “this child got a mother. But you a womanless man,” it was here where she asserted her independence from her husband. Elam quoted Patricia Collins's argument that “black women learn independence in church, but they also learn to subordinate their interests only for the greater good of the African-American