Rose Maxson is a 43 year old woman who was married to Troy Maxson. She is ten years younger than her husband. She is an African American who lives in 1957. She is physically healthy because “she doesn’t drink” (Wilson 5). Although she doesn’t drink, she still is a part of the Friday night ritual of Bono and Troy. Her approximate height is difficult to tell but Troy “puts his arm around her” (6) which infers that she is shorter than him. At most she could be a foot shorter than him. Rose seems to be religious due to her early chaotic life and wanting a place to settle. She is very social within the Church, with her family, and friends. She seems to spend most of her time within the Maxson household. Very rarely is she seen outside the house. When she breaks ties with Troy she begins doing things outside of the house like going to a bake sale. …show more content…
She provides for her family constantly. She plays the role of a typical 1950’s woman well. Whenever she has visitors she always offers them food. For instance, when Gabriel visits, she asks, “You hungry, Gabe? I was just fixing to cook Troy his breakfast” (26). Providing for your husband and always being hospitable is trademark for housewives of the time period. However, she is not passive or submissive and is not afraid to stand up for herself, even to her husband. In this way she breaks the stereotypical mold of her time period and begins taking the role of an independent woman. When she’s leaving the house to go to a bake sale, Troy asks her when she’ll be back and she responds, “Ain’t no use studying me. It don’t matter what time I come back” (82). Essentially she is telling him that what she does is none of his concern and she can do whatever she wants. She still does not forgive him for having a child with another woman and she makes her position very
Rose was born in 1815 in Montgomery, Maryland. She was an infant when her father died and lost her sister, Gertrude, to a disease when she was about seven or eight years old. A year later following her sister’s death, her mother passed away from drowning when she was about nine or ten. She
She enjoys watching movies and playing. Ruth and her husband have quit their jobs so that they can be full-time caregivers to Lydia. They have set up a Gofundme page to help with Lydia 's medical
First, she had Mrs. Sommers be a stay at home mom. If you think of a perfect woman, she would stay at home. She would watch over her children and also do chores around the house. She would cook and clean and have dinner ready for when her
In August Wilson's play "Fences," Troy Maxon is a protagonist who, despite his difficulties, tries to do right by his family. Although some may see him as the antagonist due to his ability to gain control over his family, Troy is a complex character with an immense need to provide for his family and protect them from the harsh realities of life. Troy is an imperfect character who errs. Troy is a character who persists in trying to do the right thing by his family despite being perceived as an enemy by others due to his personification of death and demons. The protagonist Troy will assert that he represents the human experience of attempting to make one's way in the world.
He refuses to discuss any information with her about their living conditions. He tends to avoid the subject overall and is too busy focusing on his farm. Father constantly ignores Mother’s questions and comments when she tries to persuade him to provide the family a new home and improve the living conditions. Mother is annoyed and aggravated, so she decides to rebel against his ways and views of managing the household and the farm. This is a vast step considering all women are supposed to be submissive to men, and do not
Rose Maxson’s actions in the play Fences involving undivided faithfulness with her husband Troy had proves to be truthful and straight from the heart. Even after she found out that her husband whom she’s been with for over eighteen years, was in an affair with another woman. Rose definitely proved her loyalty and love for her husband as she claims Troy’s child (who was born by a woman by the name of Alberta) as her own child. Near the end of the play, Rose exclaims “I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you.
Eventually Rose realized she needed to get out of her relationship with Ted and divorced him. Her emotions immediately changed after she decided to do that, “Now I felt nothing, no fear, no anger”(Tan 218). And it was all because she asserted her ground to Ted. She had finally busted out of her shell and felt more confident about the things she
She did every housewife responsibility she could: cooking, cleaning, knitting sweater, writing love sonnets to her husband,
He thinks that without the baby, they can go back to traveling the world (Lines 174-176) and having a simple relationship. The woman, on the other hand, recognizes the issues developing in the relationship. While the man sees the baby as an obstacle, she seems ready to settle down and raise the child. This is evidenced when she says to her lover, “Doesn’t it mean anything to you? We could get along.”
Whenever he tells fictitious stories, she points it out. When he told her about his affair she says, "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!" What could be the most challenging situation for her is when she agrees to help Troy in the upbringing of Raynell after the death of Alberta during childbirth.
I believe that the song “Love Myself” by Hailee Steinfield fits perfectly with the scene of the last meeting between Rose and Ted. The song talks about coping after a nasty breakup and realizing self-value and confidence. Throughout the book it is referenced that Rose is very much without courage. She believes everything her mom tells her, she is very timid, and in her marriage she lives in the shadow of Ted.
She controls all of the interactions of the family; everyone is dependent on her. When Walter starts skipping
Her paternal grandfather was also a great inspiration for Susan: he had a steady job on the railroad during the Great Depression. It was a physically demanding job, but he did it for several years and kept his family comfortable, or at least well enough that her father’s was the only family in their town that didn’t go running behind every coal train that went by to pick up dropped coal to maintain themselves during the winter. A more constant reminder for Coate that women did not have to stay ‘in-house’ was her mother: she had a heart condition and sometimes couldn’t get out of bed for days at a time. During those spells, she would tell her children about better times- when she was young, and worked at the factory plant. What she carefully managed to avoid telling was the cruel manner in which she was fired after the war was over.
Troy chose to escape his reality by having an affair that gives him some laughs and good time every now and then. However, despite the flaws in Troy’s character, he was a providing family man who wants to insure a better life of his sons than the one he had. Based on the play’s time period, which took place at the 50’s, apparently the main problem of Troy Maxson’s character was racism against African Americans at the time that had prevented him from achieving his dreams. Throughout the play, Troy expresses his dissatisfaction in several scenes with the other characters.
Trophies are not always made of gold, or even placed on a high pedestal. That’s right, housewives can be trophies as well (at least, that’s what men thought during the early 20th century). Unless they wore an apron, had food in hand, and maintained an hourglass figure, society forced women to believe that this was the only way the could be housewives, and deserved to be married to a husband. Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie featured Amanda Wingfield, a housewife that is unfortunately a victim of societal pressures.