Troy says that, as long as he can keep up his strength, he’ll try to make it as difficult as possible for Death to take him. Troy moved up north in his youth and struggled to build a new. Troy concludes that Death had grown tired and given up, vowing to return someday for him. F ences is a play by August Wilson in which frustrated protagonist Troy alienates his family through a series of tragic decisions. Troy continues, saying that, right before he fought Death, he grabbed Death’s sickle and threw it as far as he could, and then they wrestled for three days and three nights.

Rose then gives Troy’s story a context in real life by mentioning that he had pneumonia. Death” what he wanted, and looked him “dead in the eye,” without any fear. Troy then tells Rose that she’s the one who brought death up in the conversation, and says that he’s not worried about death: “I done seen him,” he says, “I done wrestled with him.” Troy says that he asked “ Mr. Rose then says that she doesn’t understand why Troy wants to talk about death. It is the sixth installment of Wilson's Century Cycle (also known as the Pittsburgh Cycle), a series of plays set in each decade of the 20th century that focus on Black American. It was written in 1983 and first performed in 1987 at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway in New York City. Rose tells Troy that he’s going to drink himself to death, and Troy responds by saying “death ain’t nothing,” comparing it to a fastball (a kind of pitch in baseball) that’s easy to knock out of the park. Fences is a major work from the playwright August Wilson.

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