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Please find the Play of the “Fences” by Wilson by clicking in the below link:August Wilson “Fences” : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveAnswer ONE of the following discussion questions. Give at least two quotes from the play as specific evidence for your assertion(s) and explain how the quoted material supports your claim. (You may also want to use historical information given to better understand Troy.) Consider the good things and not so good things that the play reveals in its characterization of the protagonist, Troy Maxson. Would you characterize Troy as a good man? a bully? A brave man? A survivor? Something else altogether? Support your characterization with evidence from the text.Do you think Troy Maxon’s experiences with his own father are reflected in his interactions with Cory and Lyons? If so, how so? Would you say that Troy is a better father to his sons that his own father was to him? Why or why not?Troy seems to believe that he is protecting Cory from the disappointments and discrimination of being an athlete of color in mid-twentieth century America (when segregation was the norm). An argument can also be made, however, that Troy refuses to see that there has been some racial progress in Cory’s time. Yet another argument might also be made that Troy is simply too envious or stubborn to allow Cory to pursue an opportunity that Troy himself was denied. Which argument do you think is most likely? Why?
