... its Symbolism August Wilson, the author of the profound drama, "Fences", goes to extraordinary heights when creating a symbolic idea behind the fence built in this drama. The characters mentioned in this drama create a type of emotional fence. Their emotional fences were created by previous events or surroundings and used as a sort of defense mechanism. Wilson depicts one main character, Troy Marxson as having "fence like" attributes ... paper job! Hell, anybody can drive a truck. How come you got all whites driving and the colored lifting? He told me "take it to the union." Well, hell,...

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... to show that two things are separate, and to keep them that way. When August Wilson wrote his play, Fences, he was writing a play about the things that keep people apart. Fences is about separation, the separations between different colors, of man and wife, life and death, and of generation to generation. These separations are illustrated thorough the members of a black family ... his mistress dies,Alright...Mr. Death. See now... I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take and build me a fence around what belongs to me. And then I want you to stay on the other side.(Wilson 77)...

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