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Fences View of Dreams
The damaged dreams of one generation can also damage the dreams of the next generation. Troy Maxson is an incarnation of an African American generation that finds itself in a position that it can ultimately realize the American ideal of liberty, life, and pursuit of happiness. Troy became more successful that his dad, who remained an impoverish sharecropper and never owned property or land but instead, spent his wages and life unscrupulous land owner (Jang). Troy bought his own house, even though he felt guilty about the means he used to pay for the house. Through his sexual relationships, Troy embodied the freedom of an individual to follow his own dreams and desires in pursuing …show more content…
Troy does not wish Cory to experience the disappointment and hardship that he felt in an attempt to become a professional baseball player, so he demands his son to work after school as opposed to practicing with his football team (Jang). However, Cory believes that times have changed since baseball turned down a player as talented as his father because of his skin’s color. Cory believes on the existence of a possibility that the professional sports would accept and include him, rather than excluding him. In the first Act, the third scene, Cory provides examples of successful African-American athletes (Jang). However, for Troy to accept the changes in the prevailing world would cause him to accept his own dreams’ …show more content…
He desired to be a prominent, but his career was prevented as a result of racial discrimination. As discussed in the essay, the main conflict of Fences revolves around his refusal to let Cory, his son, play football, which destroy his son’s chances of going to college, considering that he would have only obtained college scholarship by participating in sports (lntan Kurnia). In this way, the play provides an exploration of how the damaged dreams of one generation can lead to damages in the dreams of the next generation. By the end of fences, Cory, Troy’s son, must find an alternative way of forming new dreams out of the ashes of his lost