FENCES: Analysis of 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" ... his son from pursuing a career in baseball meant that he would impose his "psychological fence" on Cory. Although Troy succeeded in not allowing him...

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