Fences

Fences Critique on Reading Fences The play Fences is set in the 1950’s, while a black family tries to get past the struggles that linger with them from generations past. Struggles that consist of morals, attitudes, and patterns of life. It is the story of Troy Maxson who is the son of a sharecropper. Troy’s father only cared about his money. But his debt filled life caused him to feel a failure. This why he took his anger out on all of those around him. All of his wives along with Troy, at the age of fourteen, leave him. Troy acquires his violent and resentful attitude from his father. But, he also learns the meaning of responsibility. That no matter how hard things get, a man always has a responsibility to uphold. After doing some time in jail, Troy gets out with an exceptional talent in baseball. But he is refused to play because even though this is the land of equal opportunity, all things were not equal at that time. His brother Gabriel fought in WWII and now does not even know who he really is. Troy cannot fences, troy, play, even, struggles, rose, out, life, because, baseball, yard, time, things, tells, story, son, sometimes, keeping, father, family, another, about, wife, talent, struggle, steps, sits, responsibility, porch, people, past, now, matter, man, love, learns, know, hard, give, feels, feel, equal, doesn’t, death, can’t, brother, been, away, around, always