Fences By August Wilson: Summary

“Fences” composed by “August Wilson”, begins on a Friday, also known as payday for the two men who are main characters in the story, Bono and Troy. The two are returning home from work as garbage collectors and begin their weekly tradition of getting together, having a few drinks and relax while catching up on each others week. As the play begins to go on, it tells that the setting is a dirt front-yard, which indicates to me that maybe they don’t have much money, low income or live in a poor neighborhood. As Bono and Troy start a conversation about a coworker, Brownie, who lied to their boss about a watermelon being taken they go on to explain that their not the fondest of their boss, Mr. Rand. I feel as if the name of this character “Brownie”

This seems very suspicious that if Bono asked about it, that maybe he had reasonable concerns to bring it up in the first place. But Bono wasn’t done pestering, he begins to give more detail saying that he has seen Troy walking to and from her house and it was obvious that Troy become aggravated that he was following him around and snooping in his personal life but I think this is a friend looking out for another friend, Bono had no intentions to hurt Troy’s feelings. This indicates to me that there may be complications with this in the future such as Bono informing Troy’s wife, Rose, about his sneaky love life. Rose comes out and begins conversing about how Troy has changed for the better as a married man and tells them that their son, Cory, has been recruited for a football team for the college and the coach is stopping by to meet them and explain more about the deal. With Troy having rocky experience in the Negro Leagues and not being accepted in to the Major Leagues for old age, he becomes distant from the idea of sending his son to play football and would much rather him learn to