With the narrator's return to Harlem he sees that much has changed. His old colleague, Brother Clifton has disappeared only to be selling Sambo dolls on the streets. While attempting to escape the police Brother Clifton attacks one of the officers to, to which the officer responds with a bullet to Clifton. Furthermore, the narrator begins to see the betrayal of the Brotherhood in that they have abandoned Harlem in favor of more international affairs.
The text here offers a good representation of the idea that blacks are like marionette puppets -- like the Sambo doll. They are all controlled by the majority powers via invisible strings. The social environment has blacks living and moving in specific patterns and not by their own accord, even if there is an illusion of freedom.
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