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A 3 page (2 pp. + 1 pg. outline) paper which examines the changes the young man undergoes throughout the course of the Pulitzer prize-winning play. No additional sources are used.
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man in the eyes of his father. The plays title may well have symbolically referred to the impenetrable barrier between father and son. While Troy embodies the African-American
past, Cory represents its future, and the changes he undergoes throughout the course of the play mirror those of African-Americans in the United States throughout the 1950s and 60s.
Beginning with the inclusion of Jackie Robinson into Major League Baseball, doors were finally starting to open for boys like Cory Maxson, much to the consternation of the elders who
resented the closure that kept them from realizing their dreams. Cory was working at the A&P, maintaining an impressive grade point average, and hoped to win a college football scholarship,
but none of this seemed to matter to his demanding father. While building the fence that his mother Rose steadfastly insisted on, the simmering tensions between father and son
come dangerously close to reaching the surface. When Troy, in effect, throws a monkey wrench into Corys future plans despite his efforts to keep his job while pursuing a
football career, he asks, in frustration, "How come you aint never liked me?" (Wilson 37) Troy bellows that it wasnt pertinent whether or not he liked him, taking care
of his son was his responsibility. Hes made it clear that a financial obligation is all that is necessary, but Cory is longing for a fathers love. When Cory
comes home one day to discover that Troy informed Coach Zellman that he will no longer allow his son to play on the football team, Cory verbally lashes out at
his father, charging, "You just scared Im going to be better than you" (58). What he doesnt realize because Troy never shares with him that his father is trying
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