Analysis of August Wilson’s Fences

Fences by August Wilson explores the struggles of African Americans in the 1950s. August has written ten plays, including this one that explores the struggles for justice and fairness by African Americans. Born in 1945 in Hill District Pittsburg, August grew up in an ethnically diverse environment that perhaps placed him at a better place of writing plays that touched on black Americans’ struggles. Other works written by August include Gem of the ocean, Jitney, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and King Hedley II, all of which are plays in ‘The Pittsburg Cycle.’