In Fences happiness is portray in many ways. Rose is dealing
with the betrayal and how dishonest troy was with her. She keeps all of her
emotions in without overacting and even though troy was the most loving husband
she went on and try to be happy that she even has him. “Don’t you think I had
dreams and hopes too” (Wilson 70). She prefer making her family happier than
herself. Troy has been getting away with all the problem such as sleeping with
other woman. “It’s just… She gives me a different idea… a different
understanding about myself” (Wilson 68). Troy doesn't much care about how his
actions would hurt his family but rather what makes him feel good and that was
the main reason why he went on to sleep with this woman because he felt like he
could be himself around her rather than worrying about the house and what needs
to be fixed. Cory happiness is portray by him wanting/fighting for a spot to
get into the football team but the only thing that in his way is his father. He
feels like his dreams are being crushed by him even though he knows that his
father would just want him to have a better future than he did.
In our society, happiness is defined by giving and receiving
love and kindness from people. In today world happiness is must things to have.
“Happiness is a priority. I believe that happiness is the most important aspect
in our lives, what people strive for. Mostly what makes people happy is doing
what they love and happiness would mean being selfish sometimes and to want something
for yourself just like troy did, he went on to sleep with this woman because he
felt a happiness for himself rather than doing something for his family.
In the play fences and what society definition of happiness
is similar in some ways. For example rose wants her family to be happy which
today people want that for their family. Troy is happy with providing the
essential needs for his family. The main difference is that in today’s world
people are wanting to get as much money as they could to make themselves happy
but in reality that’s not true. Buying extravagant things isn't going to make
you happy because those materials are going to be done but in the play fences
he believes that happiness is what he does for his family and that should be
enough for them to know.
I agreed with when you said that she preferred to make her family happy rather than herself because Rose stayed with Troy mostly because of their family, while Troy cheated on her because the responsibility of a family was too much for him. I also liked how you said happiness in our society means being selfish for what you want and how you connected it back to Troy was perfect since that is exactly what he was doing.
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