In the short story King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison, the narrator is at a movie theater and waiting to play the bingo game that follows right after the movie ends. He is looking for a way to get money for his wife Laura for she is about to die and they have no money for a doctor; he cannot get a job since he does not have a birth certificate. He has not eaten and has not slept and just wants to get the bingo game over with. In the South, it is normal for strangers to share their food, but since he moved North Carolina, people would think he is crazy. In order to win the money, the person must get bingo on the game, spin the wheel, and get a double zero, luckily, that is exactly what happens to the narrator up until the moment of the