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A 5 page paper on this 1987 Pulitzer prizewinning play. The paper comments on the relationship between the title and the fences the characters erect around themselves, symbolized by the fence Troy Maxson builds on his property. It concludes that African Americans have interiorized three hundred years of racism and allowed it to warp the way they think of themselves, and building emotional fences is a form of self-defense. No additional sources cited.
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play was heralded was undoubtedly due not only to its realistic dialogue and characterization, but to its stark and yet poignant evocation of black life in the 1950s. The lives
of the Maxson family are dominated by the specter of racism, which was not only a social challenge but one that insidiously worked its way into the very heart of
how the Maxsons define themselves as individuals. This motif is illustrated by the fence which Rose Maxson wants her husband Troy to build around their property. Troy has no
idea why Rose would want such a thing, but he is willing to build it for her; a picket fence seems to go along with the stable middle-class life to
which he aspires, but which will always be out of his reach. That this stability is important to him is illustrated by his speech to his son Cory, who wants
to know whether his father likes him. "Like you? I go out of here every morning . . . bust my butt . . . putting up with them crackers
every day . . . cause I like you? . . . Its my job. Its my responsibility! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family.
You live in my house . . . sleep you behind on my bedclothes . . . fill you belly up with my food . . . cause you
my son. . . . Cause its my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you!" (Wilson, 218). Troy tries to get Cory interested in
this kind of responsibility as well, but does not seem to be having much luck. For most of the play Troy harps at Cory to come home, do his chores,
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