![]() From the beginning his friend Bono seems to notice that Troy often flirts with a waitress at a local bar named Alberta. Troy's relationship with his wife, Rose, is just as rocky. The next time Cory and Troy argue, Cory comes at his dad with a bat, which leads to Troy kicking him out of the house. Later, Cory finds his dad hurting his mother in the heat of an argument, and Cory pushes him down. Cory deeply resents his father holding him back as he thinks Troy doesn't want his son to turn out better than he did. When he doesn't, Troy feels his son has lied to him so he refuses to sign the papers from the recruiter that could help get Cory into college and later has his coach cut him from the football team. When Cory quits his job at the A&P during football season, Troy tells him to get it back. ![]() Due to Troy's bad experiences with baseball, he doesn't think it's realistic for Cory to pursue playing football. Troy constantly butts heads with his son Cory who is also a strong athlete, like his father, and wants to go to college on a football scholarship. Eventually, Gabe became a nuisance, so Troy put him in a mental institution. Due to his head injury, Gabe had delusions and believed he was the Archangel Gabriel. Gabe would sometimes unintentionally cause trouble and end up in jail, so Troy would need to bail him out. Later though, Gabe wanted more freedom, so Troy let him rent a room from Miss Pearl, a neighbor. Troy helped take care of his younger by allowing him to move into his house. He was able to buy a house with the money that his brother Gabe received from an injury to his head that he endured during the war. ![]() Soon after he left prison, he met Rose, and he settled down for a typical life. Troy believes though that it was due to the discrimination against African Americans that kept him from playing. In prison Troy learned that he was an excellent baseball player, so when he got out, he tried to become a professional, but by then he was too old and had missed his chance. Troy was arrested in his early twenties for killing a man whom he was trying to rob to help support his lover and his young son, Lyons. Bono is Troy's best friend whom he met when they served time in prison together. Lyons enjoys playing music in a band however, he often comes by Troy's house asking to borrow money because playing music isn't very lucrative. Troy also has a son from a previous relationship, Lyons, who is in his early thirties. An African-American man in his fifties, Troy has been married to his wife Rose for eighteen years, and they have a teenage son named Cory. The play Fences, written by August Wilson, begins in 1957 and focuses on the protagonist Troy Maxson.
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