... 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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