Character Analysis of Fences: Troy Maxson Troy Maxson is the main character of August Wilson's liminal work Fences. Troy, a once-talented baseball player, at the start of the show now works as a trash collector and is aging, well beyond his ball-playing days. He has had a solid friendship with Bono for about thirty years. He is a man married to Rose and the father of Lyons and Cory. As the play unfolds, it becomes obvious that Troy is out of touch with his time, not just the era, but because of his color he has not been able to realize the dreams of his youth. due to racism, ever-changing policies. A big man who built this once gifted man into excellence, whose only homerun rivals in baseball were Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson, is now relegated to looking at other women and picking up trash. He wants a better life for himself and his family, but a lack of education and extenuating circumstances have dictated a lower-class life where he is stuck among the rubbish he is so desperate to separate himself from. Now in his fifties, he can still talk the game well and could be the o...