Rose asks Raynell to change her shoes to prepare for Troy's funeral. Troy has died from a heart attack when he was swinging a bat at the baseball that hangs from a tree in their yard. Cory returns home from the Marines in his uniform. Lyons also comes home to go to the funeral.
Troy's death allows his family, especially Cory, to heal. Troy triumphs over Death because he never lets fear of it control his life.
In August Wilson's play Fences, Troy converses with death because he wants everyone to know that he is not afraid of death. Years earlier, Troy battled pneumonia for three days, almost dying.
Rose reveals to Cory that Troy died swinging at the ball hanging from the tree in the backyard, never able to give up on his dreams of playing baseball.
In this play, Death represents the obstacles keeping Troy from happiness. Death had a role in Troy's past when he was going through hard times. Troy threatened Death when his relationship with Rose was struggling. At the end of the play, Death finally conquers Troy.
What is ironic about the way Troy died? He built the fence to keep death from getting him. But death crossed that and took him. When Cory says he isn't going to Troy's funeral, what is Rose's reasoning for him to go?
In this first scene of the play, Troy is afraid of nothing, values his life, and feels in control. Troy's attitude toward death is proud and nonchalant. Troy says, "Ain't nothing wrong with talking about death. That's part of life.
Troy admits to Rose that he has been having an affair and that his mistress, Alberta, is pregnant. Later, Alberta dies in childbirth.
Death” when addressing “him.” Further, Cory's unwillingness to go to Troy's funeral speaks to his desire to wash himself of his father, of the stains Troy made on Cory's life—and this suggests that Cory feels he hasn't fully escaped the grips of his father.
Troy stands over Cory with the bat and kicks Cory out of the house with finality.
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).
By the end of Fences, August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece now playing at Ford's Theatre, we know a lot about Troy Maxson: his hard-scrabble Southern childhood, his stint in jail, and his time as a star in baseball's Negro Leagues. We know that he is a liar, a cheater and sometimes, a thief.
Troy often thinks about life and death in terms of baseball. He describes Death as "a fastball on the outside corner" (1.1. 82) and claims he could always hit a homerun off this kind of pitch back in his heyday.
Troy's father found Troy with a girl Troy had a crush on and severely beat Troy with leather reins. 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.
Ultimately, Troy's primary tragic flaw is shown by his failure to be faithful to his wife. While Troy and Bono seemingly endlessly discuss the matter, Troy is unable to access the actual reason for being unfaithful to his wife. Essentially, he simply fails.
Troy is 53 years old in the play Fences. The play's last scene occurs seven years after the main events of the play just before Troy's funeral, indicating that Troy died at age 60.
Troy has died in between the action of the last two scenes of the play, so the final scene presents the lasting effects of Troy's life on his loved ones. Though Troy's relationships with Bono, Rose, and Cory were ruined and broken in life, they gather together in his honor.
Throughout the play he's gone around talking about judgment day. Gabriel always carries around a trumpet and says St. Peter told him to blow the horn when it's time to open heaven's gates for the day of judgment. So Gabriel decides that the day of his brother's funeral is the day of judgment for everybody.
In the play Fences by August Wilson, Rose tells Troy that she has married him because she thought that she would be able to change him.
Answer and Explanation: 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.
Gabriel contributes to the world of Fences by representing absurdity, and specifically absurdity in an African American life in America.
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 ...
Death” Symbol Analysis. Death appears as a personified figure in Troy's fanciful tales about wrestling with death and buying furniture from the devil. Troy's typically stubborn sense of manhood and strength largely derives from his relationship with death.
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.
The fence appears finished only in the final scene of the play, when Troy dies and the family reunites. The wholeness of the fence comes to mean the strength of the Maxson family and ironically the strength of the man who tore them apart, who also brings them together one more time, in death.