Some people build fences to keep people in, and some build fences to keep people out. The author August Wilson, of the play “Fences”, describe how the title metaphorically connects to each character. The protagonist Troy Maxson a fifty-three year-old, African American man who works for Sanitation Department, lifting garbage into trucks. Troy is husband to Rose, Father to Lyons, Cory, and Raynell, and brother to Gabriel. The title “Fences” metaphorically connect to Troy Maxson, Because he doesn’t want his child, Cory, to be outside of the house he wants him to be more at home. Even though Cory points out tot his father several current black baseball players, like the Famous Hank Aaron. Troy dismisses all of this and tells his son, “The white man ain’t gonna let you get nowhere with that football noway”(1.3).
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Rose Maxson is a forty-three year-old African American housewife who volunteers at her church regularly and loves her family. The title “Fences” metaphorically connect to Rose Maxson, because she request that Troy and Cory build a fence in their small dirt backyard comes to represent her desire to keep her loved once close to her. In the play she told Troy,”And you know I ain’t never wanted no half nothing in my family”(2.2). She said that when he fathered a child by another woman.
The teenage son of Troy and Rose Maxson. A senior in high school, Cory Maxson, he makes good grades and college recruiters are coming to see him play football. The title “Fences” metaphorically connect to cory because he wants play football and do what he desires. His parent doesn't want him to be away from the family, they wants him to work and follow his father’s footsteps. Rose told Cory “Cory, don’t you go nowhere!”(1.4). He replied, “I got to go to the game, Ma!...Later. Bye Ma”(1.4). Cory went to the football game
Rose Maxson is a forty-three year-old African American housewife who volunteers at her church regularly and loves her family. The title “Fences” metaphorically connect to Rose Maxson, because she request that Troy and Cory build a fence in their small dirt backyard comes to represent her desire to keep her loved once close to her. In the play she told Troy,”And you know I ain’t never wanted no half nothing in my family”(2.2). She said that when he fathered a child by another woman.
The teenage son of Troy and Rose Maxson. A senior in high school, Cory Maxson, he makes good grades and college recruiters are coming to see him play football. The title “Fences” metaphorically connect to cory because he wants play football and do what he desires. His parent doesn't want him to be away from the family, they wants him to work and follow his father’s footsteps. Rose told Cory “Cory, don’t you go nowhere!”(1.4). He replied, “I got to go to the game, Ma!...Later. Bye Ma”(1.4). Cory went to the football game