Troy’s was a father,
Brother, Husband, and friend, he had so many people around him that were
counting on him. Troy tried very hard to provide for himself and his family,
without him a lot of people would be in a different place. Troy gave all he
could to the people around him, “Troy:
Woman… I do the best I can do. I come in here every Friday. I carry a sack of potatoes and bucket of lard. You line up at the door with your hands out. I give you the lint from my pockets. I give you my sweat and blood.”(40). Troy Works very hard to make money for the family so he can provide a nice home and food. Throughout the play Troy changes from being a sort of cranky and crappy person to the people around him. He treats people like they don’t matter, Troy thinks all he needs to be happy is money and a job for a steady income.
Woman… I do the best I can do. I come in here every Friday. I carry a sack of potatoes and bucket of lard. You line up at the door with your hands out. I give you the lint from my pockets. I give you my sweat and blood.”(40). Troy Works very hard to make money for the family so he can provide a nice home and food. Throughout the play Troy changes from being a sort of cranky and crappy person to the people around him. He treats people like they don’t matter, Troy thinks all he needs to be happy is money and a job for a steady income.
Troy’s legacy can be
interpreted in many different ways, in my opinion I found his legacy to be
partly negative and partly positive. By that I mean in the beginning of the
book fences Troy is very exhausted all the time and treats the people that he
cares the most with disrespect. Towards the end of the play he realizes that
the things he has done are starting to effect the people in his life. “a man’s
got to do what right for him. I ain’t sorry for nothing I done. It felt right
in my heart (to the baby) what you smiling at? Your daddy’s a big man. Got
these big hands. But sometimes he’s scared. And right now your daddy’s scared
cause we sitting out here and ain’t got no home. Oh, I been homeless before. I
ain’t had no little baby with me.”(79). The saying “you don’t miss something until its gone” is very important at this
part of the play because he had family
and a home but he made the choice to cheat and the consequences from his
actions are coming back to bite him in the butt. Troy had all he needed and now
he has nothing no home, no family, and no friends to help him. He hit a very
big wall and I feel this is his breaking point, he finally realized that he had
the things he wanted, and he just couldn’t see it before. His legacy changed
from being a crump to understand what it really means to give and receive when
it is needed.
I think Troy ultimately
left his legacy behind by the actions he made, for example, when he told rose
about what he had been doing and that he now has a baby. He made those
decisions for himself and that left him in a tough spot because he had nothing.
“Troy: in talking, woman, let me talk. I’m trying to find a way to tell
you...I’m gonna be a daddy. I’m gonna be someone’s daddy.”(66). This is wear
try went wrong, he told Rose which was the right thing to do but he shouldn’t
have been going around with another woman in the first place. He also shows his
legacy in a positive way, in one part of the play he’s talking to “death”.
“Alright...Mr. Death. See now… I’m gonna tell you what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna
take and build me a fence around this yard. See? I’m gonna build me a fence
around what belongs to me. Then I want you to stay on the other side” (77). This
is where Troy takes his strength back and decides he’s gonna do what he can to
get his family back. I feel Troy tried very hard to provide for him family, but
he also was a cheating and non-caring person. Both of those things are very
important for people to have in order to be happy and give others happiness.
Devin! I loved your post :)
ReplyDeleteMy post related so much to yours. "in my opinion I found his legacy to be partly negative and partly positive" This part here in particular.
I agree 100% with this, he did leave a positive and a negative legacy. In my opinion his positive legacy was he was a very hard worker, even through the really tough times. Like when he got that new job as a truck driver, but it wasn't all worked up to be what he expected. "ain't got nobody to talk to... like you're working by yourself." (83) I also saw him in a negative light. Like when he cheated on his life, for selfish reasons.
troy could have been better yes, but we must also view his situation, he was in jail, and probably a victim of hash racial hatred when he was younger which comes out through his speech when he described the devil as a "white fellow" (Wilson 15). so yes he had a negative legacy but I feel that may be because no one gave him a positive one, the only thing he was basically raised to do was work, and so that's what he does best. he was never taught to care by his dad or the people around him, so it makes sense that he lacks those aspects, but he pulled through on the end. which I believe is a good thing that came of Raynell, as you mentioned he realized that he had something good and lost it and then he wanted to make it right.
ReplyDeleteDevin, good post! I agree that Troy's legacy could be "partly negative and partly positive". Though, I believe it is mostly negative. Cory said, "The whole time I was growing up... living in his house... Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. It weighed on you and sunk into your flesh. It could wrap around you and lay there until you couldn't tell which one was you anymore. That shadow digging into your flesh. Trying to crawl in. Trying to live through you. Everywhere I looked, Troy Maxson was staring back at me... hiding under the bed... in the closet. I'm just saying I've got to find a way to get rid of that shadow, Mama" (Wilson 97). if your child doesn't want to attend your funeral, you did something wrong. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI really like your post Devin! We wrote a lot of the same things. I really liked when you wrote about when Troy stepped up and told Rose about the baby. That made him a real man. He also stayed and took care of his child instead of abandoning them. "I cant just make it go away. Its done now. I cant wish the circumstances of the thing away." (69) Troy stood up and took responsibility for his actions.
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