Rose matches Troy's bad news. Gabriel has been taken away to the asylum because Troy signed papers granting permission for half of Gabe's money from the government to go to Troy and half to the hospital.
Gabriel is Troy's brother. He's the only sibling Troy is still in touch with, though they grew up in a large family. Gabe was wounded in World War II and now has a metal plate in his head.
Troy is ashamed of his use of Gabe's money to buy their house, but without it, they would still live in poverty. Troy's manhood is bruised because he knows it cost the Maxson family part of Gabriel's brain to have what little assets they own. This sacrifice contributes to Troy's often-warped sense of duty.
But Troy thinks it would be cruel to lock Gabriel up after all Gabriel went through during the war. He also feels guilty for assuming ownership of the three thousand dollars with which the army compensated Gabriel for his injury. Troy claims that the only reason he has a house is because of Gabriel's compensation.
The final moments of Fences are pretty darn awesome. 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.
The third betrayal in the pay would be when Troy put his brother, Gabriel, into a mental institution so that he could benefit from his brother's insurance money.
In August Wilson's play Fences, which Wilson began writing in 1983, Gabriel's role in the play is as a scapegoat for the feelings of shame and inferiority that plague Troy. Gabriel is Troy's brother who was wounded in World War II. Troy has been getting Gabriel's disability check until Gabriel moves out.
Troy treats Gabe like a person, but doesn't really want to get too involved. He takes Gabe's disability money to use for his own survival while giving Gabe only a share of what is his. In a sense, the house Troy calls his is really Gabe's, but Gabe doesn't care.
Gabe had received $5,000 from the government, and Troy took control of this money to purchase a home for his family, including a room for Gabe.
Not only did he cheat on his wife, he went fathered a child with somebody else. Wilson really keeps the surprises coming with this revelation. We pretty much knew there was an affair going on, but we had no idea about this. Rose feels like Troy has betrayed his brother Gabriel by putting him into a mental institution.
In 2003, Gabriel's mother, Pearl Fernandez, was investigated by county social workers for an allegation of severe neglect. She and her son, the elder sibling of Gabriel, were involved in a car accident in which her son suffered a head injury because he was not wearing a seatbelt.
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 ...
Troy yells at Cory, telling him to get out of his yard, but Cory corrects him, saying that it's not really his father's yard, since Troy stole Gabe's money to pay for it.
Troy Maxson is a classically drawn tragic-hero. He begins the play loved, admired and getting away with his secret affair. But eventually, Troy's death leaves many negative attributes as an inheritance for his family to sort out and accept.
Before Rose responds, Troy muses that he cheated on his wife because he has felt restrained and worn out due to “standing in the same place for eighteen years” (Wilson 2.1).
Rose accuses Troy of treating Gabe just like he treated Cory—he betrayed them both. Whereas Troy wouldn't sign Cory's recruitment papers, he was willing to sign the papers for Gabe's hospitalization. Rose adds that Troy will profit from sending Gabe away, since he'll get half of his brother's money.
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.
Troy was benefited from Gabriel's condition because Troy was given $3000 for his brother's condition and put it down for their house.
By announcing the truth out loud to Bono, Troy begins to fully understand the enormity of the betrayal he has committed. Unfortunately for Troy, he is too late: Alberta is now pregnant with his child.
In the first ever film adaptation of Fences by August Wilson we are introduced to Gabriel. Based on the time period when Fences was set we can assume Gabriel fought in WWII. He suffered an injury there and as a result has PTSD and a metal plate in his head.
how does troy react to gabe? troy feels bad for using gabe's disability money to pay for his house because it isn't troy's own hard earned money. how does rose defend him? rose defends troy by saying that it's alright that he took control of gabe's money because gabe can't handle it himself.
Emotionally, Troy has little attachment to his children. He takes little interest in the activities that his children love, like Lyons' musical career, and Cody's football career.
Troy was sent to jail for 15 years for accidentally killing a man during a robbery. He met and married Rose when he came out of jail.
Troy is confused and hurt. He had thought that the papers he signed were the release forms to allow Gabe out of jail. He had made a mistake in sending Gabe away because he could not read the papers that he signed.
Troy stands over Cory with the bat and kicks Cory out of the house with finality.