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critial essay on a play Fences by August Wilson

He also said that the pressures of duty were taken off his back whenever he was with his mistress . This somehow showed that Troy Maxson sometimes also get exhausted with his responsibility to his family

Troy is the central figure here because his decisions , achievements , and failures in life are the elements that mostly affected the lives of his family and the people around him . Being the head of the family , he shouldered the responsibilities of being a father , provider , and guardian who acknowledges his duties and responsibilities . The fence that

Troy was building here has a kind of symbolism and Bono , was able to explain it in his statement : Some people build fences to keep people out . and other people build fences to keep people in . Rose wants to hold on to you all (2027

Death is one of the most important themes in this play . Troy often challenges death in the course of the story stating that : Death ain 't nothing , I done seen him . Done wrassled with him . You can tell me nothing about death . Death ain 't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner (2003 ) Rather than considering it as a vague unknown , Troy looks at death as a natural part of life . He also thinks that if he only keeps his vigilance , he will be able to defeat death from overpowering him all over again

In the end of this story , it is again death that was able to reunite the family . When Cory doesn 't want to attend his father 's funeral , Rose said : Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn 't . and at the same time he tried to make you everything he was . I don 't know if he was right or wrong . but I do know he meant...

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