The fence keeps people away, protects the house, prevents escape, and may even hide a secret. What is the reason you have a fence? In the play Fences, each character has a different meaning for the fence, for example Rose uses the fence to keep people in, Troy uses the fence to control access and also uses the fence as an excuse to neglect his family and hide a secret. . Bono sees the fence as a way to hold people back and also to give the Maxson family new hope by providing a reason why Troy should build the fence. The title of the work is Fences; note that the title is plural and not singular. Symbolically, this could mean that, even though the play only refers to a fence, each character uses the fence differently; therefore, the title is