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   Why does Rose want the fence?

   • Bono suggests that maybe Rose is trying to keep them in; she wants the fence because she's afraid of losing Cory and Troy. Go inside and look for another saw, Troy tells Cory. Troy asks Bono what he meant by that statement. Bono tells Troy that he's respected him for a long time.

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   Why does Rose want a fence in Act 2?

   • "Some people build fences to keep people out and other people build fences to keep people in. Rose wants to hold on to you all. She loves you." In the first scene of Act Two, Bono explains to Cory and Troy why Rose wants a fence built around their dirt yard. Neither Cory nor Troy understands why Rose insists that they complete the fence.

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   Why does Troy build the fence for Rose?

   • The fence of Troy’s career, therefore, was at once a marker of his skill whenever he hit a home run, as well as a border enclosing a world and a future he could never fully enter. Therefore, when Troy builds the fence for Rose, he’s building his own limit, his own arena—a limit not imposed upon him by forces of discrimination out of his control.

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   Why does Cory want a fence?

   • Cory wonders why Rose might want a fence. Troy doesn't get it either; they don't have anything valuable enough to steal. Bono suggests that maybe Rose is trying to keep them in; she wants the fence because she's afraid of losing Cory and Troy. Go inside and look for another saw, Troy tells Cory.

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   Why does Rose yearn to fence-off and fence-in her family?

   • Rose yearns to fence-off and fence-in her family’s lives and the bond connecting them from a racist world of white dominance—from a society bent on delegitimizing black life and casting it as second-class.

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   What does Rose ask Troy to build?

   • Powered by LitCharts content and AI. The fence that Rose asks Troy to build, and envisions as wrapping protectively around her family, can be read in a several ways.

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   Rose yearns to fence-off and fence-in her family’s lives and the bond connecting them from a racist world of white dominance—from a society bent on delegitimizing black life and casting it as second-class.

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     Death,” therefore, resembles the fence, since its invention...

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     Set in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, Fences explores the...

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     Mr. Rand is Troy and Bono’s manager/overseer at the garbage...

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     The topic of death appears throughout the play in various...

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   For Rose, the most practical of the Maxsons, a fence symbolizes something that is most closely akin to its literal purpose, the protection and perimeter of the family.

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   In the first scene of Act Two, Bono explains to Cory and Troy why Rose wants a fence built around their dirt yard. Neither Cory nor Troy understands why Rose insists that they complete the fence. It takes an outsider of the family, Bono, to observe why this project is so important to Rose, and what the fence represents.

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   Jul 13, 2015 · Rose's fence seeks to keep the family in and the dangerous world out. It is a symbol of protection. Troy uses good outside wood because he says it might last forever.

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   Frustrated with building the fence, Cory questions why Rose even wants it built in the first place. Supporting Rose, Bono replies that, while some people build fences to keep people out, some build them to keep people in, and that Rose just wants to hold on to her family because she loves them.

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   Rose hangs laundry in the yard on Saturday morning. She sings a song asking Jesus to protect her like a fence. Troy and Rose talk about the numbers, or lottery game, that Rose and Lyons play. Troy tells Rose that everyone at work thinks he is going to get fired, but he does not think it will happen.

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   Cory wonders why Rose might want a fence. Troy doesn't get it either; they don't have anything valuable enough to steal. Bono suggests that maybe Rose is trying to keep them in; she wants the fence because she's afraid of losing Cory and Troy.