August Wilson Character Analysis

Society has etched an image into everyone’s heads. It’s painted perfection all around them and it’s told them many times what it truly means to be beautiful. Though people say they have their different views on perfection, it mostly consists of the same characteristics. To define this beauty that everyone craves, one has to be charming, attractive, thin, honest, understanding, and many other things. It seems almost impossible to satisfy anyone’s views on what it means to reach these aesthetics. From reading “Fences” by August Wilson and “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, it is undoubtedly seen how flawed their main characters are. In every aspect of perfection, Willy and Troy contradict it with their own despicable personalities and thoughts. Though, through all of
Unlike Willy’s remorse about his affair, Troy Maxson was unapologetic and blunt about his own. He’s been absent every Saturday, saying that he went to watch the ball game at Taylors’. But this man, too, was a liar, and went behind his wife’s back. While sneaking around, Troy must have failed to use protection, which resulted in the pregnancy of this woman. In ways that Willy Loman will never be, Troy Maxson was honest about it. In fact, he was too honest about it, and bluntly revealed in act two of “Fences,” “Rose...now listen to me...we can get a handle on this thing. We can talk this out...come to an understanding… It’s just...She gives me a different idea...a different understanding about myself. I can step out of this house and get away from the pressures and problems...be a different man. I ain’t got to wonder how I’m gonna pay the bills or get the roof fixed. I can just be a part of myself that I ain’t never been…I can sit up in her house and laugh. Do you understand what I’m saying. I can laugh out loud...and it feels good. It reaches all the way down to the bottom of my shoes… Rose, I can’t give that up... you ain’t the blame. A man couldn’t ask for no woman to be a better