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Troy started to play baseball at a young age

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As much as Troy loved baseball he couldn’t keep playing because at his time he was facing racial discrimination that couldn’t allow him to keep playing.

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When Troy faced the racial discrimination  and the fact that the sport he loved, he couldn’t make his dream true nor play it, made his grow with a lot of hatred and black and white  sight minded.

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Troy found out Cory wanted to take his football career serious and doesn’t take it the right and supportive way

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Troy and Cory's opposing views on how Cory should spend his future deteriorates after Troy prohibits Cory from playing football and going to college.

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Troy's refusal to support Cory's scholarship and the pursuit of his dream of playing football stems from Troy's own experiences and his belief about the father/ son relationship.

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Later on the play we find out Troy had cheated on Rose/ corys mother and had welcomed a child with the other women he was having a affair with.

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No matter how bad things went with her and Troy she stayed by Troys side and even had to let go of her dreams To follow Troy the man she loves and when she stayed after the baby she said she did it for the baby and not him.

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Many ways Troy has shown how he is a tragic hero.

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Troy Maxson is a classically drawn tragic-hero. He begins the play loved, admired and getting away with his secret affair.

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Later on Rose tells Troy to build a fence around there house, the fence had a deep meaning to Rose.

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Rose talk to Jesus, she asks him to be a "fence around me every day." The fence is a symbol of protection and of family unity, but for Troy, as readers will learn, the fence can also represent a cage.

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Troy always talked about having a fight/ war with
Death  but yet someday it might catch up to him.

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Troy never actually got along with his family, and with his kids he was never close to them, it was as if they had there own fence around each other but it was a metaphor.

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Troy never liked the idea of Cory playing football he never supported him with it, on the other hand, Rose supposed
Cory no matter what decision he chose.

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Troy grabs the bat from Cory and drives him out of the yard. Disoriented, Troy once again challenges Death to come for him. And died over a heart attack.

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Six years later, Troy has died of a heart attack, and Cory, now a USMC corporal, returns home, but informs Rose he will not attend Troy's funeral.