Fences August Wilson Character Analysis

In this life, people deal with conflict each day in their life. In the play Fences, by August Wilson, Troy who is the protagonist of the play deals with conflict in his live as man against man, man against nature and man against society.

Man against man conflict means a struggle between two characters. In the play, Troy is in conflict with other characters like Rose which is his wife that he has been married to for eighteen years and who is a forty-three years old African American house wife, Gabriel who is his brother and fought in WWII and get wounded which cause him to have a metal plate in his head and disability that leads him to believe that St Peter and he are friends and he had been to heaven, and others He is in conflict with Rose because he cheated on her and another kid with Alberta because he feels that he is different man with her, the time he spends with her is get away from the pressures and problems that he is facing in his life, he doesn't have to worry about how he is going to pay the bills and he feels that he has been taking care of his family that

In the middle of July Troy was in Mercy Hospital because he had pneumonia and he was laying at t the hospital with a fever talking plumb out of his head\. He described this day to Bono who is Troy's best friend and works as a garbage collector like Troy as "the Army of Death was marching straight at me. The middle of July , 1941. It got real cold just like it be winter. It seem like Death himself reached out and touched me on the shoulder. He touch me like I touch you. I got cold as ice and Death standing there grinning at me." and he tells that Death and he wrestled for three days and three nights which means he almost die because he was sick and he stayed strong and fought to stay in life instead of giving up and die. In the play, he talks about Death isn't nothing. He done seen him and done wrestled with