Selecting Quotes in Fences

Which Quote best demonstrates that Troy loves Rose?

• “You can't find a better a better woman than Rose” (63).

• “I love this woman so much it hurts” (20).

• "And I ain't talking about doing Rose no bad turn. I love Rose" (63).

• “She done carried me a long way and I love and respect her for that” (63).

Which quote best demonstrates that Troy is a good father?

• ”The white man ain't gonna let you get nowhere with that football noway. You go on and get your book learning job.”

• “I’d appreciate it if you would help me take care of her” (79).

• "I got sense enough not to let my son get hurt playing sports" (38).

• “She’s my daughter, Rose. My own flesh and blood. I can’t deny her no more than I can deny them boys.”

• "It’s my responsibility! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family. You live in my house . . . sleep you behind on my bedclothes . . . fill you belly up with my food . . . cause you my son. You my flesh and blood. Not cause I like you! Cause it’s my duty to take care of you!"

Which quote best demonstrates that Troy is a bad father?

• "Liked you? Who the hell say I got to like you?"

• “You damn right your are! And ain’t no need for nobody coming around here to talk to me about signing nothing. ”

• “Yeah, I’m crazy! If you don’t get on the other side of that yard… I’m gonna show you how crazy I am! Go on… get the hell out of my yard.”

• “You’re a bigger fool than I thought.” 

• “I’ll be damned. I’ll die and go to hell and play blackjack with the devil before I give you ten dollars.”

Which quote best demonstrates that Troy exaggerates and tells stories?

• “ Man batting 269, understand? 269. What kind of sense that make? I was hitting .432 with thirty sevens home runs! Man batting .269 and playing right field for the Yankees!”

• ‘’Death aint nothing. I done seen him. Done wrassled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner’’

• “Aw hell, I done seen him too! Done talked with the devil.”

• “It starts out like a little bush and the next thing you know its a whole forest”

• “That’s what she told me. Man, you in my way so I can find me a husband. I thought it over two or three days. Come back—”

Which quote best demonstrates what Troy thinks of Cory?

• “You a bigger fool than I thought… to let somebody take away your job so you can play some football. Where you gonna get your money to take out your girlfriend and whatnot? What kind of foolishness is that to let somebody take away your job?”

• “You live in my house, sleep you behind on my bedclothes, fill you belly up with food cause you my son. You my flesh and blood. Not cause I like you! Cause it's my duty to take care of you.” 

• "I don't want him to be like me! I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get."

• “I know how he is. That boy scared of work.”

• “I ain't thinking about Cory nothin.”

Which quote best demonstrates what Troy believes about money?

• "Where do you think that ten dollars you talking about come from? I'm just supposed to haul people's rubbish and give my money to you cause you too lazy to work.”  

• ‘’Yeah I can see that! It don't matter how you gonna eat… where your next dollar coming from. You telling the truth there.’’

• “What the hell you looking at me for? I ain’t got no ten dollars. You know what I do with my money.” 

• “You wanna see that seventy-three dollars and twenty-two cents I got sittin up in there”

Which quote best demonstrates that Troy is stuck in the past?

• “There’s a lot of people don’t know they can do no better than they doing now. That’s just something you got to learn.” 

• “I was hitting .432 with thirty-seven home runs! Mans batting .269 and playing right field for the Yankees!”

• “There ought not never have been no time called too early!"

• “Times have changed from when you were young, Troy. People change. The world’s changing around you and you can’t even see it.” 

Which quote best demonstrates that Rose is a forgiving person?

• “Okay Troy you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you cause like you say she's innocent and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child”.

• “Give her here.”

• "You always taking about what you give...and what you don't have to give. But you take too. You take...and you don't even know nobody's giving!”

• “That was my first mistake. Not to making him leave room for me.”

Which quote best demonstrates Cory's work ethic?

• ‘’I'm trying to find a job.’’

• “I can’t work after school during the football season, pop.” 

• “I told you I had to go to practice.”

• “Mr. Stawicki say he gonna hold my job for me until after the football season.”

Which quote best demonstrates that Troy views fatherhood as a job?

• “It’s my job. It’s my responsibility! You understand that? A man hot to take care of his family.”

• “Like you? I go out of here every morning... Bust my butt... Putting up with them crackers every day… cause I like you? You the biggest fool I saw.”

• “I can sit up in her house and laugh.”