... Troy Maxson. He has a loving wife, a family and a best friend, yet he is lonely. Troy doesn't know how to handle the emotions he has toward other people, so instead of dealing with people he pushes them away. By the end of the play, "Fences" by August Wilson, Troy has pushed away so many people that it is like he is living amongst strangers. But these strangers aren't strangers at all, they are ... Cory and Troy Maxson's father-son relationship is anything but desirable. The harder Cory works to better himself, the lower the moral between Cory and Troy becomes. Cory excels in football a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 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 in 1957. The father of the family, and main character, is Troy Maxson. Throughout the play, Troy works to build a fence around his back yard. The fence is symbolic of the difference between ... big chance, and believes that Troy is only holding him back because of jealousy...

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• Grade Level: High School