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esponsibility” into “social equality” and confesses that he has made a mistake for he was swallowing the blood. The speech goes on and the listeners ignore the narrator. Overcoming the shame and the tiredness, the narrator finishes the speech. At last, he wins great applause and is given a prize—a gleaming calfskin briefcase. He is comforted. In the whole process, the black boys, especially the narrator was made fun of and watched for fun. And the naked woman is in the same misfortune. Generally, it is a funny story. But in what way we laugh or cry? The black brothers fight for each other without brotherhood, a woman is maltreated but no one tries to help, a small prize will wash away the humiliation. Ellison of course didn‘t fail to give his sympathy. For example, at this plot, “The M.C rushed forward. They shouted hostile phrases at me. But I did not understand.” That is a joke on the white citizens of the town. 2.1.2 Mr. Trueblood’s story In a log cabin of a village near the narrator‘s college, there lives a Mr. Trueblood, who had made a strange dream, which led him to rape both his wife and his daughter, and they got two children. The narrator drives Mr. Norton, a white trustee of the college, to visit the campus and they ride past the family. Mr. Norton takes interest in Mr. Trueblood’s story and hears the whole story of the incest and how the white and the black later treated Mr. Trueblood differently from the family, especially from Mr. Trueblood. The black villagers drove him out of there while the white there helped him to return to his family and support the family. Mr. Trueblood tells his story shamelessly and Mr. Norton is so curious about that. And the narrator listens aside and becomes bored with the sense of both humiliation and fascination mixed. Ellison took a long passage here to perform this plot, in order to create a humor effect, making the reader cry without tears and laughing without sound. The morality of Mr. Trueblood is torn by the different attitudes of the whites and the blacks toward his ashamed incest. That reflects the cultural conflicts between two different races—the black and the white in America. The black were not respected by the white, which was the reality in racial problems of America in that period. Ellison reveals that, showing indignation and concern through the narrator. 2.1.3 Beating Superbcargo to faint Superbcargo is a giant black man, the attendant supervising the mental patients present at the Golden Day. Without his uniform on, he is not able to control the group. The patients sense his powerless and attack him, knocking him to faint. Superbcargo is giant but powerless. Dramatically, it is the mental patients who knocked him. For the accident, no one is to be blamed. What a vivid reflection of the reality that some blacks become dependent upon the white. 2.1.4 Blind Barbee’s speech Reverend Barbee is a moving orator; he speaks at the chapel to the members of the college and visiting trustees. His speech centers around the founder of the college and greatness of his vision which he and Dr. Bledsoe have attempted to continue. However, the narrator finds that Barbee is blind when the speech ends and Barbee‘s fake eyeballs drop. The little joke makes the plot funny and indicates that the speech would not lead to a right direction. It brings in bad luck to the narrator, and then the narrator doesn’t know the truth. The funny plot makes his misfortune appears less sad. 2.1.5 An experien