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Troy Maxson
The protagonist of
Fences,
a fifty-three year-old, African American man who works for the sanitation department, lifting garbage into trucks. Troy is also a former baseball star in the Negro Leagues. Troy's athletic ability diminished before the Major Leagues
accepted blacks. Hard-working, strong and prone to telling compelling, fanciful
stories and twisting the truth, Troy is the family breadwinner.
Cory Maxson
The teenage son of Troy and Rose Maxson, Cory is a senior in high school. With his good
grades, college recruiters are coming to see him play football. Cory is
respectful son, compassionate nephew to his disabled Uncle Gabriel, and
generally, a giving and enthusiastic person. An ambitious young man who has the
talent and determination to realize his dreams.
Rose Maxson
Troy's wife and mother of Cory, Rose is a forty-three year-old African American housewife. She volunteers at her church regularly and loves her family. Rose's request that Troy and Cory build a fence in their small, dirt backyard comes to represent her desire to
keep her loved-ones close to her love.
Gabriel Maxson
Troy's brother, Gabriel was a soldier in the Second World War, during which he
received a head injury that required a metal plate to be surgically implanted
into his head. Because of the physical damage and his service, Gabriel receives
checks from the government that Troy used in part to buy the Maxson's home where
the play takes place.
Jim Bono
Troy's best friend of over thirty years, Jim Bono is usually called "Bono" by the characters in F
ences.
Bono and Troy met in jail, where Troy learned to play baseball.
Troy is a role model to Bono. Bono is the only character in
Fences
who remembers, first-hand, Troy's glory days of hitting homeruns in the Negro Leagues. Less controversial than Troy, Bono admires Troy's leadership and responsibility at work. Bono spends every Friday after work drinking beers and telling stories with Troy in the Maxson family's backyard.
Lyons Maxson
Troy's son, fathered before Troy's time in jail with a woman Troy met before
Troy became a baseball player and before he met Rose. Lyons is an ambitious and
talented jazz musician. He grew up without Troy for much of his childhood
because Troy was in prison