Troy's wife and mother of his second child, Cory. Rose is a forty-three year-old African American housewife who volunteers at her church regularly and loves her family. Rose's request that Troy and Cory build a fence in their small, dirt backyard comes to represent her desire to keep her loved-ones close to her love.
Unlike Troy, Rose is a realist, not a romantic longing for the by- gone days of yore. She has high hopes for her son, Cory and sides with him in his wish to play football. Rose's acceptance of Troy's illegitimate daughter, Raynell, as her own child, exemplifies her compassion. Read an in-depth analysis of Rose Maxson. Troy's brother. Gabriel was a soldier in the Second World War, during which he received a head injury that required a metal plate to be surgically implanted into his head.
Because of the physical damage and his service, Gabriel receives checks from the government that Troy used in part to buy the Maxson's home where the play takes place. Gabriel wanders around the Maxson family's neighborhood carrying a basket and singing.
He often thinks he is not a person, but the angel Gabriel who opens the gates of heaven with his trumpet for Saint Peter on Judgment Day. Gabriel exudes a child-like exuberance and a need to please. Read an in-depth analysis of Gabriel Maxson.
Troy's best friend of over thirty years. Jim Bono is usually called "Bono" or "Mr. Bono" by the characters in Fences. Bono and Troy met in jail, where Troy learned to play baseball. Troy is a role model to Bono. Bono is the only character in Fences who remembers, first-hand, Troy's glory days of hitting homeruns in the Negro Leagues.
Less controversial than Troy, Bono admires Troy's leadership and responsibility at work. Bono spends every Friday after work drinking beers and telling stories with Troy in the Maxson family's backyard. He is married to a woman named Lucille, who is friends with Rose. Bono is a devoted husband and friend. Bono's concern for Troy's marriage takes precedent over his loyalty to their friendship.
Troy's son, fathered before Troy's time in jail with a woman Troy met before Troy became a baseball player and before he met Rose. What does Troy say about Alberta? Troy says that Alberta is sexy, but he hasn't been with her. Troy has died from a heart attack when he was swinging a bat at the baseball that hangs from a tree in their yard.
Cory returns home from the Marines in his uniform. Troy went to jail in the play Fences for murder. He accidentally killed a man while attempting to rob him. Troy Maxson is a garbage collector who prides himself on his ability to provide for his family and keep it together. He is the patriarch and central character in Fences, , he continually places barriers between himself and the very people he loves the most.
Bono observes that Rose wants the fence built to hold in her loved ones. To Rose, a fence is a symbol of her love and her desire for a fence indicates that Rose represents love and nurturing.
Troy and Cory on the other hand think the fence is a drag and reluctantly work on finishing Rose's project. When Cory goes into the house to look for a saw, Bono confronts Troy more explicitly about his affair. Troy finally admits to Bono that he is indeed having an affair with Alberta.
Troy's father, like many blacks after the abolishment of slavery was a failed sharecropper. Troy claims that his father was so evil that no woman stayed with him for very long , so Troy grew up mostly motherless. Manhood, to Troy, meant separating from his father because of conflict and abuse. Come on! Why does Troy want to go to the hospital to see Alberta?
Troy signed for Gabe to be locked up in the hospital. He denies this and says he may have signed something he didn't understand. The prevailing irony in Fences is that it is the protagonist himself, Troy Maxson, and not society that provides the obstacles or "fences" in his life that keep him hemmed in and unfulfilled emotionally. The fence between Troy and his wife Rose is Troy's infidelity. At the end of Act 1, Scene 4 Troy says Cory has earned his first strike, and Troy warns him not to strike out.
This strike call comes after Cory accuses his father of wanting Cory to fail. Troy uses the baseball terminology because the sport is the one thing he truly loves. Alberta is the woman with whom Troy has an affair.
At the beginning of the play, Troy and Bono talk crudely about her attractive physique, and Bono questions Troy about his involvement with her throughout the book. Eventually, Bono realizes that Troy is having an affair with Alberta, and tells Troy that he must make everything right.
Ultimately, Troy fails at this: he impregnates Alberta with Raynell , and as a result his eighteen-year-relationship with Rose disintegrates. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Act 2: Scene 1 Quotes. Related Themes: Practicality, Idealism, and Race. Page Number and Citation : 70 Cite this Quote.
Explanation and Analysis:. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Act 1: Scene 1. The conversation then shifts to discussing a woman named Alberta. Act 2: Scene 1. Bono responds by saying he knows how important Rose is to Troy, explaining that he Troy responds by saying that Alberta gives him a different idea about who he his—that Act 2: Scene 2.
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