CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SSS1 THIRD TERM

WEEK FOUR

CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION

CONTENT

REFERENCE

• Exam Reflection in Literature- in-English by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.
• Exam Reflection in Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama) by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi. 
• Fences by August Wilson.
• Look Back in Anger by John Osborne.

CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION

TROY MAXSON

The husband of Rose, and father to Cory and Lyons, Troy is the central character of Fences. Shaped by the effects racism has had on his life—by the struggles, it created in his youth and the career ambitions that it thwarted, including his desire to be a baseball player—Troy lives in the shadow of what could, and what should, have been. The play can largely be described as charting how Troy’s…