nherited her mother's strength and determination, qualities she needed to raise six children in a Bedford Avenue two room apartment behind a grocery store in Pittsburgh's Hill District poor neighborhood inhabited by black Americans, Italians, and Jews. Daisy supported her family as a cleaning lady. Her husband, Frederick Kittel, a German immigrant and baker, seldom spent time with his family. (Smith)
             In this play, "Fences", by August Wilson, the fences are evident from the very
             I believe that the theme of "Fences" is the various ways that people handle
             Themselves, while they are facing hardships and discrimination in their lives.
             I see each character in the Play representing a different approach.
             Wilson himself says in an interview "We're all victims of white America's
             Paranoia. My Characters don't respond as victims. No matter what society does to
             Them, they are engaged with Life, wrestling with it, trying to make sense out of it.
             Nobody is sitting around saying, "Woe is me." (Lyons 40)
             Troy uses blame and oppression of his on family to make Himself feel
             Better, Rose uses family and her faith, Corey uses his determination and hard
             Work to overcome his. While his brother Lyons lives off of the Work others, and
             Eventually follows his Father's path. Gabe uses his illness and religion to try to
             Jump his fences. Troy's friend Bono Does not make waves and just goes with the
             Flow. In my conclusion only two of these characters Escape their fences...Rose and
             Corey, each in his or her own way. Rose's escape came from her Close
             Relationship with God and with her family. She was the mother in an African
             American Family, a matriarch in her own way. Corey escaped by leaving the
             Neighborhood and its Surroundings and attitudes, going off on his own and
             Set in the nineteen-fifties, in a black neighborhood in Pittsburgh, the home of the character Troy portrays...