Who is Rose Maxson? What drives her to be so welcoming, to have an astonishing ability to be robust, compassionate and forgiving? Who is Amanda Wingfield? Her relationship with men and family is turbulent, what attributes does she exude from being a caring mother? What drives you to be moving? How are these women perceived? What should we learn from them? Should their lives be discarded or honored? Fences is the gripping story of a black family in the 1950s. A story of the meeting of freed black slaves trying to survive in the middle of the American urban industrial city. A story of four generations of black Americans and how they passed on a legacy of morals, customs, attitudes and patterns of life. Fences examines the growing racial tensions in America in the 1950s. It deals with complex social issues such as racism and adultery. The author also recognizes that the family forms the foundation of American society as a whole and chooses the family as the focus of the story. The family is built with that specific form of love, respect, friendship, belonging, affection and values ​​that defines the true foundations of society. Its importance to black culture dates back to the times when blacks were taken from their homeland and brought to a foreign and hostile land. The protagonist of Fences is former baseball player turned Pittsburgh street cleaner Troy Maxson, and the antagonist is clearly racism. It is racism that has challenged Troy Maxson at every turn, and the color of his skin has thwarted his attempt to take a piece of the American dream for himself and his family. Racism creates conflict, which causes Troy to feel he has been boxed in by a discriminatory society. There are heated tensions with...... half of the paper ......m is a ...www.sparknotes.com/lit/menagerie/canalysis.html - 30k - Cached - Similar pages 01/ 30/ 06.SparkNotes: Fences - Navigate here -, Context, Plot Summary, List of Characters ...Fences • Help | Feedback | Make a request | Report an error | Quote this ...www.sparknotes.com/drama/fences/ - 24k - January 29, 2006 - Cached - Similar PagesWilson, August. "Fences." August Wilson Three plays. Paul Carter Harrison. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. Williams, Tennessee. "The Glass Menagerie." Modern critical views TennesseeWilliams. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Williams, Tennessee. "The Glass Menagerie." An introduction to literature. Barnett et al. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2004. Wilson, August. "Fences." An introduction to literature. Barnett, et al. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.