Just before the play begins, Gabriel has moved out to live with a lady named Ms. Pearl. Gabriel is afraid that Troy is mad at him for moving out because now Troy no longer gets the disability check. Troy denies this.
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.
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.
Gabriel thinks Troy is mad at him because he moved out of the house, yet Troy does not seem to care much for the situation and is only bitter at the fact that he is moving out to start his home with a woman.
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.
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.
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 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).
Ultimately, he didn't care about anyone other than himself at the time and was afraid of Rick and his group. He thinks he's right in his own mind. That doesn't make him any less of a traitor at the time. Yeah this was a little weird and seemed to come out of left field.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis play Troy and Rose Maxson, a couple who have been together for 18 years. Rose, who is loyal to Troy despite his past infidelity, is helping to raise his illegitimate daughter, Raynell.
Although Troy still loves Rose, after eighteen years of marriage, he takes her for granted. Bono is trying to restore the reverence Troy had for Rose in their early years together.
Traditionally, the Trojan War arose from a sequence of events beginning with a quarrel between the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Eris, the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and so arrived bearing a gift: a golden apple, inscribed "for the fairest".
Antenor was the Trojan hero who betrayed Troy to the Greeks.
Pick your weapons carefully, as Troy is weak to Radiation damage. Keep your distance from Troy - the square in which he stands is a great reference point to stand outside of.
Troy admits to Rose that he has been having an affair and that his mistress, Alberta, is pregnant. Later, Alberta dies in childbirth.
Fernandez had been fatally beaten by his mother and Aguirre after failing to clean up his toys. When first responders arrived, they found him on the ground naked with several injuries. Aguirre explained to them that Fernandez was "gay". Paramedics rushed him to the hospital where doctors declared him brain dead.
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.