What does the magnificent blonde represent in the story?

The blonde,
who has a tattoo of the American flag on her lower belly, represents the way in which white
women have been used as sexual objects and how their status as both sexual objects and symbols
of American femininity have contributed to the oppression of black men.

Both
the black men participating in theand the white woman in the ring are exploited objects of
erotic obsession. The white male spectators enjoy watching the black men experience attraction
to the white woman. However, the black men are also afraid of expressing attraction to the
blonde around the white male spectators, due to such attraction being forbidden to black men.
This manipulation contributes to the sexual hegemony of white men, which has historically
resulted in white men's control of both black men and white women and their unmitigated access
to the bodies of white women, as well as to those of black men and black women.

Ellison uses the Battle Royal as a visual symbol of everyone's
victimization...