audience to "Experience the disintegration of Willy Loman's mind as
             Willy experiences it" (Murphy, Abbotson, 1999). And basically, the
             audience sees Willy's subjective past (through the use of special
             lighting sequences) juxtaposed with his mundane present, and this
             technique helped change the theater into what is known as "The
             Are these plays considered tragedies - or comedies'
             But all the awards and accolades and analysis of Death of a
             Salesman notwithstanding, Fences is brilliantly presented in its own
             right. And there is the issue of "tragedy" or "comedy" in each of
             these plays. Fences features ex-con and garbage collector Troy
             Maxson, who is, on one hand, a "tragic protagonist" (Wessling, 1999),
             but on the other hand, he is "a flawed humanity in need of grace and
             forgivenessâ€[and] such grace and forgiveness are the spirit of true
             comedy, Wessling continues, writing in The Exp
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