Undelivered Letter
This interaction is meant to show a broken relationship between a father and daughter in the father's final days of his life. In the letters, readers learn that they haven't talked for 15 years, but the father is on his death bed and wants to have a conversation with his daughter prior to his death. Readers of the letters can assume what this conversation may entail, but ultimately never learn because the hospital writes to inform Isabella that her father has died before she can visit him. We are given glimpses of perhaps a rough upbringing and separation, but seeing that there has been 15 years since they last talked, the legacy we learn of is largely absent.
Death Ain't Nothing-- On canvas
The dialogue I chose to represent in genre 3 comes from the focal text, Fences. The protagonist, Troy Maxson, takes a much more lighthearted approach to the idea of death than his wife, Rose, wishes he would. If it were up to Rose, they wouldn't talk about it at all. In this scene, he personifies death, talking about how he had a fight with death, and he won. He also draws on the continuing theme from throughout the play of his past life as a baseball player. He infers that death is something to him that is easily manageable, like a fastball on the outside corner. His lighthearted attitude towards death has undertones of foreshadowing towards his eventual death in the play's final scene--but in a comforting way, readers already know how Troy feels about his mortality.