![]() ![]() ![]() She does this so that she and her family can protect a private interior of their experience - a lived, black experience - from an outside world that threatens to invade it and from the polarizing effects that white power has on society. Rose desires the fence so that she and her family can be cut off from the rest of the world. Yet Troy also builds the fence himself it’s mainly his own creation, though Rose first tasks him with creating it. ![]() From one aspect, the barrier depicts the spatial implications of segregation in general: the fencing-off of blacks, the formation of ethnic insularity in some districts, and it is a memorial to this basic social divide caused by white economic and political supremacy. The fence which Troy gradually builds in front of his house serves as a symbol of segregation, as well as the overall psychological impulse to build a fortress where a black ‘inside’ or interior may separate itself off from the white-dominated society around it. ![]()
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