![]() ![]() A large number of African-Americans migrated from southern states to the north in 1920s and 1930s in order to find jobs in industrial northern states. It indicates that the racial discrimination, manifested in various forms including racial segregation prevalent in the white-dominated American society, impedes Troy‟s progress. It examines why Troy Maxon, as the protagonist of the play, is not able to fulfill his dreams of freedom, and economic achievements in an environment of oppression where he finds himself surrounded by hostile whites who hinder his development. This paper traces the impossibility of the fulfillment of the American dream for African Americans in August Wilson‟s Fences. ![]()
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