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"I done tried to be everything a wife should be. Everything a wife could be. Been married eighteen years and I got to live to see the day you tell me you been seeing another women and done fathered a child by her." (Wilson 2.1.67)
Troy does not have a strong connection to family, contrasting how Rose feels about family. When Rose finds out about Troy cheating, she feels he has violated their family. Troy betrayed the family they have built and has now created more conflicts between relationships.

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"I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams...and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom."(71) Rose said that Troy was being selfish for giving in to his urges or be with another woman and escape from reality. Rose considers family so important that she took all those urges and put them into him. She is trying her best to make it enough for her to be with Troy because of family.

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"Don't you think I wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes?... That i wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities?"(2.1.70-71). I know that a man cheating isn't looked down upon by society. If his loving wife went to cheat on him and came back pregnant, that woman would be figuratively burned at the stake. I think because women were financially dependent on men, they weren't respected. Therefore, it was kinda okay if a man cheats. But more than likely the woman is left with the children, housework, and catering to her husband. Rose does have a 24/7 job and that's why she should be financially supported. Loyalty should go both ways but supporting your family financially is enough to be relinquished of that "responsibility."

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"But I held onto you, Troy. I held you tighter. You was my husband. I owed you everything I had. Every part of me I could find to give you." (Wilson 2.1.71)
Even as Rose discovers that Troy has been cheating on her with another woman, she still clings onto her identity as his wife. Rose feels deeply betrayed by Troy because she has spent eighteen years by his side. She has devoted every part of herself to him and their son.

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"My whole life I ain't done nothing but look to see if Friday coming and you got to tell me it's Friday." (Wilson 2. 2. 9-10). Troy's entire life has been the same story played repeatedly. His past is a blur of all the same thing. The only pattern he knows is working.

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"Then when I saw that gal ... she firmed up my backbone. And I got to thinking that if I tried ... I just might be able to steal second ... It's not easy for me to admit that I been standing in the same place for eighteen years" (Wilson 2.1.71). For the eighteen years that Troy and Rose had been married, Troy essentially felt like he had no control over his life and that the responsibility of taking care of Rose, Cory and the income of the family had him in a perpetual chokehold that he could not escape from as the father figure of the household. Therefore, by cheating on Rose with Alberta, Troy feels like he can finally restart his life with a new woman who he genuinely feels comfortable with and release him from his chokehold of responsibility. However, through cheating, his is essentially throwing away eighteen years of experience with a woman who genuinely loved him, started a family with him and devoted her life to him.

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"You always talking about what you give... and what you don't have to give. But you take too. You take... and don't even know nobody's giving!"(Wilson 2.1.71)
Rose feels exhausted with the way that Troy acts. She feels like he is selfishly acting and only cares about his own aspirations. Troy desperately wanted to breathe fresh air and find a new crowd but he didn't think about the sacrifices that Rose had to make and the sacrifices that she currently is still making by deciding to stay with Troy even after cheating so that she can keep the family together.

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"All they want is the money. That makes six or seven times I done went down there and got him. See me coming they stick out their hands" (Wilson 2. 1. 14-16). After Troy has to bail Gabe out, he comes to the realization that maybe Gabe isn't the problem. He connects the dots and realizes that they are getting money out of constantly taking him and accusing him of crimes, even if what he did was not worth the punishment. Gabe is put into an unjust situation, he cannot help that his condition makes him react certain ways, but the authorities take advantage of his situation to get money from his family.

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"I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes?... But I held onto you, Troy. I took all of my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams, and I buried them inside you... I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom." (1.2.70-71)
Rose, through her years of sacrifice withing the her relationship with Troy, has put all of her personal desires and invested them in their love. Rose, as a practical person, chose to make Troy and their family the most important factor in her life, therefore Rose has entrusted her identity in her relationship with Troy. Truly, their relationship is the biggest part of her identity.
This quote also shows ROSE as a flower that has been unable to bloom into her full self/identity because she has been trapped by Troy.

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"I stood on first base for eighteen years and I thought... well, goddamn it... go on for it!" Troy is trying to justify his affair to Rose by explaining he was tired of the same cycle. He wanted something new because the life he was living wasn't enough. The 18 years he was with her was getting boring to him and he didn't want to live like the past anymore.

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"And I didnt take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never going to bloom"(Wilson 2.1.71). This quote demonstrates Rose discovering herself and the truth of her relationship. She uses the metaphor of hard and rocky soil to illustrate the constant unstable life of her and Troy. After Troy confesses he got another women pregnant, Rose admits that their marriage and life together "was never going to bloom."

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"I been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy. I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don’t you think I ever wanted other things? Don’t you think I had dreams and hopes? . . . Don’t you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? . . . But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams . . . and I buried them inside you." (2.1.70-77)
This quote from Rose represents the sacrifice she gave to Troy. She sacrificed her own happiness, dreams, hopes, and time for her husband. She greatly emphasizes how she had dreams before him and that because of them and their marriage she gave all that hope away just to be with him as well as to love him. She strongly defends herself and states how if Troy is "stuck" so is she. She says how shes been stuck and unhappy as well but that never caused her to look outside their marriage to fill up her unsatisfaction. Instead she consciously committed herself to keeping the marriage healthy, mostly by letting herself fall into Troy’s needs. Whether that meant putting up with his behavior or giving him her body whole whenever he felt like getting or caring for him. She sacrificed her whole life for their marriage unlike Troy.

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"Troy, I can't live like this. I won't live like this. You livin' on borrowed time with me. It's been going on six months now and you ain't been coming home."

Despite Troy confessing to cheating on Rose, she stuck around. She is wasting her life in an effort to make amends with Troy and continue their marriage. She is sacrificing her happiness even though she wasn't the one who did anything wrong so that she can continue to live comfortably.

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"" The man done had his life ruined fighting for what?" And they wanna take and lock him up. Let him be free He don't bother nobody." Troy is stating how Gabe fought in the War for everyone's sake, for America's sake and help but when he came home he gets treated poorly with injustice and inequality. He got arrested for just acting a little out of pocket, troy then states how a white man wouldn't get arrested for that. This shows inequality and injustice in this Act

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"The old folks... my granddaddy used to pull his teeth out with pliers. They ain't had no dentists for the colored folks back then." (2. 1. 60) I didn't really know if this is a good quote but it shows that colored folks back then were not respected or taken care of. They would even go to the lengths of pulling their own teeth out because they didn't have dentists. Bono is saying they could do that even now.

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"Bono: She loves you, Troy. Rose loves you.
Troy: You saying I don't measure up. That's what you trying to say. I don't measure up cause I'm seeing this other gal. I know what you trying to say
Bono: I know what Rose means to you, Troy. I'm just trying to say I don't want to see you mess up."
Here Bono is bringing up Troy cheating on his wife Rose with Alberta. In this passage it almost seems like Tory is putting his own desires before his family and justifying his cheating to Bono. Bono is warning Troy that if he continues seeing Alberta he might lose Rose or Cory, his family. Troy counters back justifying his actions, putting his desires above his family, his own arrogance above Bono's warning and it might cost him his family.

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"I done tried to be everything a wife should be. Everything a wife could be (Wilson 2.1.67)." Rose takes care of her husband and her kids. She cooks, cleans and always take son a motherly role in situations. Yet Troy still cheated on her. While she was living up to cultural expectations of a woman, Troy was not living up to the expectations of a husband. Though, Troy as a man would not be as ridiculed as Rose would be if she did not meet expectations.

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"You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams. . .and I buried them inside of you" (Wilson 2.1.71). Rose is a very selfless, loving, and honest person. She gave up everything to be with Troy because she has a sense of right and wrong. Rose knows that even if she's not the happiest she could be, it's still important to stay loyal and truthful to her husband. Rose is a good wife because she makes sacrifices for Troy, even though he hasn't made many for her.

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"But I held onto you, Troy. I held you tighter. You was my husband. I owed you everything I had. Every part of me I could find to give you." (Wilson 2.1.71).  Rose shows for one how hurt she is by Troy cheating on her, and shows how loyalty is apart of her identity. She also shows how she identified as Troys wife, and how she sacrificed everything for Troy and their kid, and she selflessly committed herself to their family.

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I went down there and got him out. Cost me fifty dollars. Say he was disturbing the peace. Judge set up a hearing for him in three weeks. Say to show cause why he shouldn't be recommitted... Some kids was teasing him and he run them off home. Say he was howling and carrying on. Some folks seen him and called the police. That's all it was" (Wilson 2.1.64). Talking about how his brother Gabe got held until payed the fine and I think it just shows the cultural expectations that african americans had to deal with at the time.

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" 'We're not talking about baseball! We're talking about you going off to lay in bed with another woman'... 'I'm trying the best I can to explain it to you'. Troy is stuck, dwelling on the days of his past and effectively de-realizing his future because he is unable to grapple with the past.