Fences Analysis

question #2

Rose is both oppressed and powerful. Rose understands her situation and tries to make the best of it while she offers generous hospitality. She continuously gets undermined, mainly by troy, but preservers through the difficulty of poverty and the treatment of women, especially black women, at the time. Rose displays a lot of power, not in authority, but integrity. Throughout the book Rose dedicates her life to others trying to make them better than what she had/has and in that I gain an uncanny amount of respect for this women. A women of integrity should be a women every guy desires and every woman aspires.

question #3
A relationship that is bonded by obligation, I believe, is not a true loving relationship. In Cory's and Troy's case the relationship they have is not a good one at all. They fight, yell, and hate each other at points and its because Troy sees it as an obligation that true paternal love is hard to find in this relationship. Being a parent should be a relationship of love and caring, not only providing, without it the bond is somewhat cynical and can turn into anger and hatred.


question #5 

I would definitely recommend this book. Fences is a very accurate testament of the oppressive power of the United States in the 1950's and the overall movement towards civil rights for African Americans.  In the beginning of the play the characters are hard to relate to, but as you progress through it the problems that they face and the characteristics they exhibit, it helps you start empathize with the character and retain a better understanding of the obstacles and difficulties in their life. creates a very real sensation of what the 1950's for an African American was all about.