All families have different lifestyles; in other words, every family always has its own rules, happiness, or adversity that people in that family shares together. Moreover, to help the young generation has a better life than the old generation, each family also has different ways to raise its next generation. In the plays "Fences," and "The Cuban Swimmer," all the main characters had similar family conditions and adversities, but each one had different ways to achieve the American dream of success.
In "Fences," Troy Maxson was so poor after he got out of prison that he began his family life at that bottom. During the fifteen years in prison, he became a professional baseball player; however, it did not help him later in his normal life. In addition, as a colored person, he was always being discriminated against while he was a baseball player, or a laborer in his current job. …
