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.
Troy's brother, Gabriel is the victim of a brain-injury he received at war. As a result of the injury, Gabe's gone insane and lives trapped in the psychotic belief that he is St. Gabriel.
Troy betrayed his brother and sent him to a mental hospital because he couldn't stand seeing his brother not be stable. Once signing Gabriel to go to the hospital they took him away and Troy got half of his money. Gabriel just continues to get taken advantage of and no one does anything to help him.
As Gabe leaves, he sings a song warning Troy to get ready for Judgment Day. Rose and Troy argue over what to do to help Gabe now that he has moved to Miss Pearl's. Troy displays some guilt for managing the money Gabriel receives from the government. Rose believes Troy did the right thing in taking over Gabriel's money.
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.
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.
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.
However, later in the play Troy has Gabe committed to a mental hospital and again starts receiving half of Gabriel's check.
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.
Gabriel, Troy's brother, was severely injured during World War II and now believes that he is the archangel Gabriel.
Troy admits to Rose that he has been having an affair and that his mistress, Alberta, is pregnant. Later, Alberta dies in childbirth.
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.
Throughout the book Rose exemplifies a character with the traits of understanding and compassion for Troy as well as for the other characters. Rose puts all her time, effort and faith into her husband and son (Cory), but is stunted when Troy reveals that he has fathered a child (Raynell) by Alberta his secret lover.
In August Wilson's play Fences, Gabriel symbolizes Troy's wounded psyche. Gabriel believes that he is an angel. He is Troy's younger brother, who was wounded in the Second World War.
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's death allows his family, especially Cory, to heal. Troy triumphs over Death because he never lets fear of it control his life.
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).
I wanted to be there with you. Because you was my husband. Cause that's the only way I was gonna survive as your wife. After Troy explains that he had an affair because he had been “standing in the same place for eighteen years” and felt disappointed in his life, Rose responds.
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.
Troy explains to Rose that Gabe was arrested "for howling and carrying on" after he chased some kids away who were teasing him.
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.
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 ...
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.
Troy thought his father was just angry at Troy for his disobedience, but proving Troy's father was even more despicable, his father then raped the girl. Troy was afraid of his father until that moment. Read about the related theme of generational divide in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
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.