Former President Ronald Reagan once said, “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” August Wilson wrote a play titled, “Fences, “displaying certain characters’ barriers, or fences, that are mostly put up by the characters themselves. Wilson has an array of characters in his play: Troy, Rose, Cory, Lyons, and Gabriel. Each character has a fence that prevents them from moving forward in their lives. Listening to the history teachers talk about racism and the impact it had on the community, it becomes easier to understand Troy’s personality and his fence. Although Troy has different fences, one being his race. Troy believes that the color of his
