The story contains many symbols; in fact, the story itself is symbolic because of the struggle of African Americans through the history. The narrator, whose name is not told, has to endure many hardship to deliver his speech such as boxing other African American boys and being electrocuted. Before the boxing match had started, there was a naked women dancing around the boys. One of the symbols in the story is a naked, blonde, white woman with an American flag painted on her stomach. The women symbolizes a perfect American white woman, something that a black man could aim to attain their whole life, but would never acquire. A white women is something that a black man could not have and if he wanted her then he would have been murdered or severely