Fences August Wilson Character Analysis

While traveling through life, do you carry heavy baggage? Is the baggage you carry from your past weighing down your future? Fences is a play by August Wilson that is about the character Troy maxson who makes a living as a sanitation worker in 1950s pittsburg. Troy once wanted to be a professional baseball player, but was to old when they start letting African Americans play. Spiteful over his missed opportunity, Troy never forgets that moment when his dreams were crushed he then crushes his own son dreams being a football player even though Cory wants to be like his dad.

Anyway, Troy maxson is fifty three years old African American who works for the sanitation department lifting garbage into trucks. Although this wasn’t his dream job it pays enough just to get by. His whole life he was been discriminated he really doesn’t like this Sabitiatin job "All I want them to do is change the job description. Give everybody a chance to drive the truck" (Wilson 15). Around this time back then they would have the African American people collect the trash and the White people driving the trucks. Troy didn’t like that he would want to drive the trucks sometimes he has had enough he makes a complaint to the commissioner's office that African Americans should be able to drive.

Cory is a good player there is a scout coming to the house to talk to his parents cory get’s really excited because this something he would like to in college. But Troy tells Cory football coach that cory is not allowed to play football anymore. Troy doesn’t think that cory can get anywhere just because he didn’t go anywhere "I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were” (Wilson 81). Troy was not allowed to play baseball because of his skin color and he holds on to that through his whole life all he does is talk about