I believe the expectations in Troy’s’
society’s is that you if you’re not in a state of comfort in the sense of money
and wealth of a family but if you were not born with a silver spoon in your
mouth then you need to earn your wage through hard work that sometimes isn’t the
best work and you can’t complain (i.e. being a garbage man). This is shown in
page 40 in fences when troy said “I give you my sweat and my blood. I ant got
no tears. I done spent them.” This shows that a man in troy eyes is a person
who has responsibilities and take care of his family with hard work and effort.
In my opinion Troy is good man to
an extent. In the fact that he cares for his family enough to provide for them,
but when it comes to his relationship with Rose I get mixed feelings even though
he loves Rose to death “see this woman, bono? I love her so much… I done run
out of ways of loving her.so I got to go back to basics” this was said by toy
on page 20 of fences but in the beginning when Troy was talking to bono, Bono
had asked troy why he was hanging around Alberta and Troy had said to Bono stay
out of my business. So when it comes to his strength and weakness I believe he
is strong when he has to take care and provide for his family. But is weak when
it comes to his relationship with Rose
Nowadays
we have certain standards for men but those standards came from the past so there
are certain similarities on values but
some do just change over time like in the 50’s it was usually for the man to
have the job in the family and be the bread winner. But now in our society
today we have better civil rights for woman so there’s equality between
genders. But I do believe that Tory can live up to standards that we have.
I like how you talk about men at that time were men because of the way they handled their responsibilities and with hard work.I also agree with you about him being strong in providing for his family but not as much for his son's own emotional needs. Like think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs don't you believe that children need to hear their own father loves them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that Troy isn't a bad man because with Cory for example all he is trying to do is teach Cory the value of money and how important it is to earn your own money so you can buy yourself the fun things like the TV he wants (Wilson 31-32).
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you, but I do not believe that Troy could make it in todays society. we have a greater workforce in the less physical sense with women being the main part of it, Troy tells his sons to go out and get jobs, to make some money for themselves and future families, but never once has he told Rose that she needs to get out and start making money. I don't believe that that view of having woman do the work would sit well with a hardworking man such as Troy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that troy isn't that bad man and also Troy isn't a bad man because he is the breadwinner of his family and does what he can to provide for them to make sure that his family and him self are not living on the streets.
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