16-1 August Wilson

August Wilson was a major figure in American drama of the last two decades of the twenty century, and the beginning of the twenty- first century. Wilson was one of seven American authors to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Wilson was fourth of six children. Wilson was born and grew up in Pittsburg Pennsylvania which has been his central place of his plays. The play “Fences” was a great story that I really enjoyed reading. The story starts out with the main character talking and drinking with one of his buddies from work and automatically some sort of racial conflict is brought into the story. The main character is talking about how the white workers are the ones that get to drive the garbage trucks  and the blacks have to load them These is already one thing that hints towards the enormous amount of racial accountability in this play. We soon find out that there are many very important characters in this story, and that the main character, Troy, is having an affair with another woman and that him and the other woman have a child but the mother dies in birth. The younger of the two sons was very afraid of his father and angry at him at the same time. The father died when the daughter from the affair was seven years old. The younger son was practically forced by his mom to stay for the funeral and she was just there because she had no choice. At the end of the story everybody stayed for his funeral. In the end he was surrounded by his whole family, but he still died lonely and alone.