Name: _________________________________ Period: _______

Troy Maxson: Character Chart

Directions: Complete each bubble with information about the character. Use evidence from the text.

What is his job and how is it symbolic? Description of appearance:

trash collector and it

symbolizes that he
doesn't really give in life
he takes

How likeable of a
character is Troy? Explain.
Two past events that had an
not much becuse he
impact on Troy’s life:
cheated on his wifi of 18
years and told the going to prison
collage that he his son
deosnt want to play playing baseball
football

Two key things Troy says that tell

us about his character: One thing another character
says about him:

what rule says i gotta like you his always wanted his son to
be better than him but the
same as him
it no my job to love you its
my responsibility to take
care of you

What fences (figuratively) are in his life?

feeling like he was to be the one to do eveything
 Name: _________________________________ Period: _______

Rose Maxson: Character Chart

Directions: Complete each bubble with information about the character. Use evidence from the text.

Significance of her name: Description of appearance:

her name rose is important because
she was supposed to bloom but
because she married troy she never
bloomed

According to the stage directions,

why is she grateful for having
married Troy?
What occupation or work
does Rose do? What does because she didn't want her
this suggest about her kids to experience what she
role?
experienced when she was a
she doesn't work kid
because she a black
women in the 1950

One thing another character

says about her:

bono said that rose is a

loving caring women
Two things Rose says that and that troy should
tells us about her character:
come clean about his
she says that she had to cheating
give up on her dreams
hoping that things would
turn out better

Her “fences:”
not showing her real emotions to troy because she gave up her
dreams
 Name: _________________________________ Period: _______

Jim Bono: Character Chart

Directions: Complete each bubble with information about the character. Use evidence from the text.

How would you describe Bono’s friendship Description of appearance:

with Troy?
he approach troy by telling him that what
his doing is wrong and that he shouldn't
be doing that of him might lose someone
important to him

What details do we learn

about Bono’s life?

his about to retire from What is one thing another

working because of his character says about Bono that
reveals his character?
age

One key thing Bono says

that tells us about his What are two adjectives
character: you would use to describe
his character?
caring
some people build fences to keep people trustworthy
out and some build to keep people in loyal

What fences (figuratively) are in his life?

 Name: _________________________________ Period: _______

Cory Maxson: Character Chart

Directions: Complete each bubble with information about the character. Use evidence from the text.

How would you describe Cory’s relationship with Description of appearance:

his father, Troy?
him and his father don't see eye to eye
because troy has been super hard on his
Cory mason

What details do we learn

about Cory’s life?
he didnt get to play collage What is one thing another
football because of his dad character says about Cory that
reveals his character?

his hardworking because he

joined the army

One key thing Cory says that

tells us about his character: What are two adjectives you would
use to describe his character?

hardworking
determined

What fences (figuratively) are in his life?

his father
 Name: _________________________________ Period: _______

Gabriel Maxson: Character Chart

Directions: Complete each bubble with information about the character. Use evidence from the text.

How would you describe Gabriel’s relationship Explain the significance of Gabriel’s name.
with his brother, Troy?

troy toke gabiels money to buy a house for himself

What details do we learn about

Gabriel’s life?
he had brain surgery and it What is one thing another character
says about Gabriel that reveals his
messed him up mental and character?
physically
he wanted his own place and that shows that
his very independent even when troy offered for
him to stay with troy

One key thing Gabriel says

that tells us about his What are two adjectives you would
character: use to describe his character?

his very religons because

when troy died he belived
that the gates of heaven will
open to take troy in

What fences (figuratively) are in his life?

 Name: _________________________________ Period: _______

Lyons: Character Chart

Directions: Complete each bubble with information about the character. Use evidence from the text.

How would you describe Lyons’s relationship with Description of appearance:

his father, Troy?
Lyons is probably one of the only
people that troy can talk to about his
emotions straggles to

What details do we learn about

Lyons’s life?

he deosnt make enough to What is one thing another character

says about Lyons that reveals his
support his living conditions character?
so his always asking troy for
some money

One key thing Lyons says

that tells us about his What are two adjectives you would use
character: to describe his character?

What fences (figuratively) are in his life?

 Name: _________________________________ Period: _______

Raynell Maxson: Character Chart

Directions: Complete each bubble with information about the character. Use evidence from the text.

How would you describe Raynell’s relationship Consider Raynell’s name. The name Ray means
with her father, Troy? grace and the name Nell means mine. How is
her name symbolic?

Why purpose does Raynell

serve in the final scene?
What is one thing another character
says about Raynell that reveals his
character?

One key thing Raynell says

that tells us about her What are two adjectives you would
character: use to describe her character?

What fences (figuratively) are in her life?