King of the Bingo Game is a short story written by Ralph Ellison, first published in 1944. The key characters in the story are the game announcer, the king, and the woman dying, Laura. Laura is the embodiment of the equality sought by African Americans. The King represents the aspiring African American. The bingo announcer represents the unattainable status of the white man. The characters in King of the Bingo Game are used to explain the plight of African Americans in the early 1900s. The bingo announcer in the story represents the unattainable status of the white man. In the story, the bingo announcer is described as a "dapper-looking white man in a sharp suit." The man is on a stage, set above the audience, bathed in flashing lights. When the King enters the bingo announcer's territory, the narrator says that the lights "blinded him and he felt that he had fallen under the spell of a strange mysterious power." The King's knees are shaking, the announcer's ointment makes him feel faint, and he feels like he needs to get off stage quickly before he makes a fool of himself. Jerry Watts...