August Wilson's Fences Barriers

There’s barriers everywhere in life including in the book by August Wilson, Fences. There are many barriers in life, like that one low-paying job that can’t get someone a new car. A barrier in life is very bad, so bad that it can even affect your loved ones. Everyone has a barrier they sometimes can’t get across, but there is always an answer for them. There is a lot of barriers in Fences. The fence symbolizes a barrier, and as the play goes on, the fences between characters really shows. In the play, the Fence functions as a physical, emotional and societal barrier; it also shows barriers between his relationships with his family.
In the play , the fence functions as a physical, emotional and a societal barrier. There is a physical fence

to, but that also shows more than just a fence. Troy and COry were very confused when it came down to why they needed to build a fence. Bono comes along and explains “Some people build fences to keep people out… and some other people build fences to keep people in. Rose wants to hold on to you all.She loves you.”(61). This is very important because she wants to protect what’s hers. Another reason why this is important is because Bono wanted to tell Troy that Rose loves him. Lastly, Rose is trying to mend the relationship, hence building a fence symbolizes that.
There is lots of emotional feeling too. There is a huge emotional force when Rose states, “This child got a mother.But you are a womanless man.”(79). This is what Rose feels about troy, She is done with him. Second, the symbolism for this quote is Troy getting kicked out on the other fence, the one he built. Last, she is so disappointed in him, she left him.There is also a big societal fence that plays a huge role in this play. The fence between baseball and Troy is racism, and that is when he claims, “I’m talking about if you could play ball, than they ought to let you play”(10). This is important because this is his disappointment to him for not making the big leagues.Second, this
Effects cory because Troy does not want him to experience the same thing he went through. And third, Racism is why Troy views everything differently.There are many different types of fences in the book fences.