It's nice to see a new way of graduating from school (cough, cough). What really caught my attention was near the end where all the white men seem to get offended for just mentioning "social equality". This is a symbol for the local white culture that simply, is too conservative to even consider the idea of a black man being at their same level. This is perhaps the most racist era of the United States since the civil war. The gloomy and sardonic tones go along with what happens in the story as well. Gloomy when he is forced to fight with blindfolds and sardonic when he is giving his speech and pretty much being completely humiliated. The world choice is not better either; there is nothing nice about what happened up until when he receives the college scholarship. So this part of the story has big ups and downs in the tones but not so much in the diction or the syntax. So Ellison tries to cheer up the mood every time something nice happens but wants to keep the overall mood and environment in which the characters live the same. All that is broad remains while the little details hold.
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