Commentary+on+Fences

The play 'Fences' by August Wilson is a very creative and amazing story. Readers also agree that this book is quite good.

In this play, there are a few metaphoric things that are described. Like the fence that Troy is trying to build around his house throughout the whole play. A couple questions come up like who is he trying to keep out, or keep in, and does this fence symbolize that he does want to block something. In addition, that Troy holds on to his past with racism and how it had a big impact on his life to how he lives and looks at situations, which is also shown with his reasoning behind everything he argues about. He is about keeping his pride and masculinity, which was taken away from him when he couldn't purse his career of being a baseball player because of the negro leagues. Racism played a big part into that and that is why Troy is so stuck on racism because it ruined his manhood. Throughout the play he tried to keep his manhood.

This play revolved around Troy Maxon with his troubles and complications throughout that time period. He got himself into trouble and as the play goes on you read how he deals with them and keeping his manhood intact.