In his play, Fences, Wilson tries to illustrate the issue of racial disparity. He uses the characters in the play to be the embodiment of the struggles, achievements, problems, and other matters that resulted from differences in cultures and races between the blacks and whites living in the same land. To depict the experiences of the African Americans in the 1950’s, Wilson uses some metaphors like the games (baseball), fences, and the likes, to portray the roles and opportunities that existed between the white and blacks, and how they were unfairly shared among them. Firstly, he uses the Negro league as a symbol of freedom and pride of the African Americans. He wished to let the audiences see how the blacks could organize something for themselves. At the same time, he used the play to depict how the …show more content…
They are depicted as those who are facing a lot of challenges, unlike the whites. Hence, inequality is brought out clearly in the play. The struggles of Troy to make end meets signifies that many black, in 1950’s, were not able to enjoy facilities and even access white collar jobs. In Act I, Troy says that he was fired because of asking “Why you got the white men driving and the colored lifting?”(Wilson, Act I, 1986). Life was still hard to them, unlike the whites. For instance, despite the fact that Troy was a good player, he could join the major leagues but joined the Negro leagues. Troy explains that” The white man ain’t gonna let him get nowhere with that football” (Wilson, Act I). Moreover, the word “negro” means that discrimination had not ended as many would think. Thought in 1950’s, after the war, Wilson still believes that the blacks were oppressed, jobless, uneducated, unskilled, and deprived the better facilities of making their life worthwhile. In fact, the fence represents the hindrances to African-American to do