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Compare/Contrast Cory's Relationship with his Mother and Father
Introduction
The play "Fences by August Wilson" is a great masterpiece work with one of its
central themes being the relationship of a parent with his or her son. Cory's father is Troy
and mother is Rose, and he lives an optimistic person regardless of his pessimist father.
Troy, being an uncaring and insensitive person, always keeps hurting people close to him,
especially his wife, son, and brother Gabriel. Moreover, Troy still feels that he is treating
the people around him accordingly, without realizing the extent to which he hurts them.
On the other hand, Rose is a true definition of a woman's tenderness, whereby she
withstands the lousy treatment she gets from Troy just for the children to grow up with
the father.
Differences Between Cory’s Relationship with his Father and Mother
As a father-son relation between Troy and Cory is not anything admirable, which
could be as a result of how the former related with his father when he was younger? Troy
regrets ever meeting his biological dad, and he argues that his father "ain't care nothing
about no kids" (Wilson 50). Troy explains that the reason this led to his mother and him
leaving the dad when they were young since, they could not stand this sort of evilness.
However, despite him acting like a better parent to his family, he is a perfect reflection of

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his dad which results to Rose and Cory leaving him ultimately. Notably, Troy does not care
about his family, which can be attributed to his relationship with his father.
Cory's dreams are crushed by his father, who is always pessimistic and forbids his ideas.
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