The play Fences is set in the 1950’s, while a black family tries to get past the struggles that linger with them from generations past. Struggles that consist of morals, attitudes, and patterns of life. It is the story of Troy Maxson who is the son of a sharecropper. Troy’s father only cared about his money. But his debt filled life caused him to feel a failure. This why he took his anger out on all of those around him. All of his wives along with Troy, at the age of fourteen, leave him. Troy acquires his violent and resentful attitude from his father. But, he also learns the meaning of responsibility. That no matter how hard things get, a man always has a responsibility to uphold.
After doing some time in jail, Troy gets out with an exceptional talent in baseball. But he is refused to play because even though this is the land of equal opportunity, all things were not equal at that time. His brother Gabriel fought in WWII and now does not even know who
Fences was very heart felt. It hit close to home for many people, especially those of African-American culture. It is real. Everyone may not know the struggles of that time era. But they can relate to what it feels like to love someone who it seems doesn’t love you back, or to give everything you have but get nothing in return and even to hope, wish, and dream for the unknown but to be veered away from it because of other, maybe more important obligations. The play teaches a lesson. That in life we build fences around the things we want to protect. Keeping out the bad and keeping in the valued. Not only literally but also psychologically. And no matter how hard you try sometimes you just can’t hide.
After Troy tells Rose about his affair and child he is fathering the irony of the story unfolds. Rose continues to be the “woman” she has always been but the interaction between her and Troy has diminished. Later in the play as he sits on his steps his son, Cory, tells he doesn’t
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