This symbolism can be particularly seen in the exchanges between the two main characters; Clay, a rather well spoken and reserved Negro and Lula, a disreputable white girl. Immediately, it is obvious that racism and the plight of the Negro are the points or symbolic themes that Baraka is trying to portray. Baraka's feelings on this subject are evident in his tone of range and anger. Lula plays a tantalizing and provocative role, constantly fooling around with words of racism and with Clay himself. "Come on Clay, let's do the thing...You middle-class black bastard. Forget your social-working mother for a few seconds and let

Lula's severity precipitates Clay's outrage. "Shit you don't have any sense Lula, nor feelings either. I could murder you now. I could squeeze it flat. And watch you turn blue, for dull kicks. And all these weak-faced ofays squatting around here, staring over their papers at me. Murder them too." These lines do not just symbolize Clay's emotions, but also the emotions of a taunted black race. As Howard Taubman put it in his review of Dutchman, "If this is the way one Negro feels, there is ample cause for guilt as well as alarm, and for a hastening of change." This is the way that Negroes really feel about the white world they are living in.

's knock stomachs. Clay you liver-lipped white man. You would be Christian. You ain't no nigger, you're just a dirty white man...That's all you know...shaking that wildroot cream-oil on your knotty head, jackets buttoning up to your chin, so full of white man's words." Lula is a mere symbol of our civilization and particularly the Caucasian society in its ignorance of the blac

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