In Fences and A Raisin in the Sun, which father is more sympathetic?

This is a tough question because a case can be made for
either father as being more sympathetic.  While Troy might not be a candidate for father
of the year, one can understand the predicament in which he is immersed given his own
background.  Troy's demons run deep and the fact that he acknowledges the wrongs done to
him by his father and he struggles to display love to his son without a guide as to what
this resembles makes him a figure where empathy is evoked.  However, I think that Walter
is a more sympathetic father figure.  I think that he distinguishes himself from Troy
because he seeks to transcend his own past, whereby Troy finds himself a victim of it. 
There is nothing preventing him from taking Lindner's money.  It would help him recover
from his own loss of funds and allow him to achieve his own dream.  Yet, he understands
the burden of responsibility he has to his own family and the role he occupies in
guiding them.  In rejecting the money and embracing a much more difficult path, Walter
strikes me as the father who is more sympathetic because he seeks to embrace a hopeful
vision of the future.  Regrettably, this does not seem to be something in Troy's
composition because of his own past and the fact that he feels disconnected to the
emotional world around him.  The "fences" that prevent him from embracing another are
seeking to be torn down in Walter's setting, which is why I would find him to be the
more sympathetic of the two figures.