Hannah BerookhimProfessor C. DavisEnglish 2, Section 4151May 14, 2014Essay #3 – DramaFences, a play first published by August Wilson in 1986, is an exploration of relationships and individuals within a black family. living in the United States just before the start of the civil rights movement. The story focuses on Troy Maxson and his family's struggle to make ends meet, while everyone's emotions and desires also threaten to tear them apart from each other. In the two acts that make up the play, readers and audience members learn a lot about Troy and Rose Maxson and their children. In his younger years, Troy was a great baseball player, but he missed an opportunity to take his talent to the professional level due to racial discrimination. Events like this take a toll on Troy's character, and he becomes a hardened man, with major unresolved psychological issues that carry over into his adulthood and family life. Fortunately for Troy's children, his wife, Rose, has a kinder and more caring nature than her husband's, and when their situation worsens, she takes matters into her own hands. The two opposing personalities of Troy and Rose are the forces that drive the play forward, and it is for their dreams and actions that the play gets its name. In a way, the fence that Troy took time to complete resembles the family he neglected over the years; likewise, both are things Rose begged him to pay more attention to. In another sense, the fence is the symbol of a metaphorical barrier: for Troy, it is a barrier between his world at home and what he wants to keep away, and for Rose, it is a barrier between the world and what she wants to keep away. stay protected. The title represents various aspe...... middle of paper ......for the gates of heaven to open to his father. First, he tries to blow the trumpet as an announcement, but when the trumpet sounds and no sound comes out, he starts dancing. The dance intensifies until a bright light shines on stage, just as the sun shines from the sky, Gabriel feels that he has succeeded, that his father has been accepted and forgiven for all his sins, and the play ends. “Some people build fences to keep people out…and some people build fences to keep people in.” » (2.1.30) Without thinking too much about it, it seems obvious to the viewer where the title comes from; Troy and Cory build the fence near their dilapidated house, and by the end of the play, it is completed. Nevertheless, it goes beyond physical representation and becomes something of great figurative importance, linking a story of love, turmoil, forgiveness and loneliness..