The play reaches its climax when Troy's affair is revealed, and his wife Rose and son Cory must decide between forgiveness or resentment. Rose forgives Tory and raises his mistresses's baby as her own, while Cory struggles to forgive his father for his multiple infractions.
While Troy can be sexually reckless to the point of cheating and impregnating another woman, Rose can't even leave her house without good reason, to avoid the stereotype of the African American woman as sexually wicked.
For the rest of the play, we see that the two are totally estranged. OK, she still leaves food in the kitchen for him, and he still pays the bills. But it's clear that, emotionally, Rose has severed her ties to her husband. Troy has lost the loving wife he once had.
Answer and Explanation:
Troy does not treat Rose very well in the play Fences. Rose stands up for herself; when Troy makes inappropriate comments, she tells him to stop, and when he lies, she calls him out. However, Troy cheats on Rose and fathers a baby with his mistress.
Troy cheats on Rose after 18 years of marriage
Even though, Rose stuck it out and took care of Troy's problems like taking care of Raynell. Rose still loves Troy, but felt and dealt with the pain that Troy brought after the affair and wants to show her children that Troy was still good after all the mistakes.
The play reaches its climax when Troy's affair is revealed, and his wife Rose and son Cory must decide between forgiveness or resentment. Rose forgives Tory and raises his mistresses's baby as her own, while Cory struggles to forgive his father for his multiple infractions.
Rose had never had feelings for Cal, but became engaged to him only because of her mother's insistence.
Cory says yes—it used to be his room—and Rose comes to the door, telling Raynell to put on her good shoes for the funeral. Raynell exits into the house, and Rose tells Cory that Troy died swinging his baseball bat.
Troy takes out his anger on Rose because of his anger about Alberta's death and his frustration with himself for failing Gabe. He grabs her violently and will not let go when she pushes him down farther by accusing him of taking and not giving in their relationship.
Cory refuses to attend the funeral because he wants to rebel against Troy. Rose tells Cory that skipping his father's funeral won't make him a man.
Troy admits to Rose that he has been having an affair and that his mistress, Alberta, is pregnant. Later, Alberta dies in childbirth. Troy brings his baby daughter Raynell home, and Rose agrees to raise the girl as her own, saying: "From right now . . . this child got a mother.
Yes, Troy cheats on Rose in the play Fences. He fathers a baby with his mistress, Alberta, and has to tell Rose about the affair when he finds out this news.
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Troy's wife and mother of his second child, Cory. Rose is a forty-three year-old Black American housewife who volunteers at her church regularly and loves her family.
Answer and Explanation:
Troy and Rose were married for eighteen years when Rose found out that Troy had been having an affair with another woman. The woman, Alberta, dies while giving birth to Troy's daughter, Raynell.
Troy has three kids in the play Fences. His first son, Lyons, was born while he was serving a fifteen-year prison sentence for murder. He met his second wife, Rose, after he was released from prison and had his second son, Cory. His third child is Raynell, who is the child he fathered with his mistress Alberta.
Troy suddenly tells Rose that he is going to be a father to a child of another woman. Gabriel shows up at the house and interrupts their important conversation. Rose becomes upset and outraged.
Rose rejects Troy as her partner because she takes seriously the Biblical commandment that decrees, "Thou Shalt Not Sin," but finds forgiveness for the child born to her sinful husband because of her belief that "when the sins of our fathers visit us/we don't have to play host/we can banish them with forgiveness/as God ...
17) At the end of this scene, Troy tells Death that he "can't taste nothing no more," & that "It's between you & me now! Come on! Anytime you want!" (Wilson 89).
Rose feels like Troy has betrayed his brother Gabriel by putting him into a mental institution. She originally thought it was a good idea, but Troy argued that his brother should be free.
As he dances and howls, the gates to heaven open. Even after Troy's death, Cory still cannot forgive his father's wrongdoings, even refusing to go to Troy's funeral.
On the day of Troy's funeral, his brother Gabriel returns to open the gates of heaven for him...and succeeds. Gabriel suffered a head wound during World War II and now has a metal plate in his head.
Troy admits, "Death ain't nothing to play with. And I know he's gonna get me," but he refuses to succumb to Death easily. Troy follows the Bible quotation, "Be ever vigilant," in his attitude towards Death.
However, during the voyage she and third-class passenger Jack Dawson fell in love. The voyage came to an abrupt end when the ship struck ice and sank. Rose survived the ship's sinking, but Jack did not. She later married a man named Calvert, and had at least three children.
She would have been recorded on the shipping records as Rose DeWitt Bukater. She falls out with her finance during the voyage, and meets Jack Dawson. Once the ship has sunk, she chooses to give her name to the authorities as Rose Dawson: thus there is no Rose DeWitt Bukater recorded on the surviving passenger records.
Whatever her past loves, it would appear that from the way they looked in the photos together and from the way she spoke of him that Rose, even if she was still in love with Jack, she also loved her husband, especially since they were married until he passed away.