What is the purpose of the dream at the end of the story "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison?

s is the
first chapter of The . It tells the story of an African American teenager who
is pitted against other young men in a blind battle royal for the amusement of white men, who
then presented him with a scholarship to a black college. The narrator then gives the
valedictorians speech to the group and repeats the phrase social responsibility, which the men
love to hear.

The dream at the end of the story is a commentary on Booker T.
Washingtons idea that social responsibility, rather than social equality, should be the goal of
African Americans in the United States. The narrator, though he is chasing the American dream,
understands that pushing social responsibility will ultimately be a fool's errand. He will never
be accepted, and he will always be asked to fight for what he hasas he does in the battle
royal for the white men that act as benevolent benefactors. Ellison is making a point at the end
of the story,...