That fence is an important symbol, as the focus of interaction among the three principal characters points to invisible barriers, created in the desire to hold in and to keep out. With Troy being fenced in by the rules and conventions of a racist society, he has also created his fences, which are “both barriers to the understanding and affection of his son and obstacles to Troy’s spiritual expansion” (Kenney, 2008). Without a doubt Wilson refuses, on the other hand, to allow the tyrants a place at the heart of African American life. Wilson’s worry, though, did not include the immediate circumstances of African American life but with life itself. In Wilson’s eyes, often African Americans have their identity, dignity, and significance …show more content…
Wilson’s characters are commonly flawed and complex, their individual personalities shaped by their experiences. Their despair and hardships followed by the devastating rejection of their worth by the governing white culture and their escape come only through self-reliance and self-acceptance. In Wilson’s play, rage and frustration remain unresolved prolonging the destructive cycle. Wilson uses the fence and baseball to tell this story. It was not just a story of a life perceived as a failure, but a look into the mind and thoughts of an African American man of the