Dutchman is a play written by Amiri Baraka formerly Leroi Jones. The story focuses on the two characters of the play, Clay, a young black man, and Lula, a older white woman. The story starts with Lula accusing Clay of staring at her. The play keeps developing into it finally reaches the climax of Lula actually murdering Clay. The events in the play are prime examples and showcases the relationship between blacks and whites during this time period along with showing the audience what black identity. There is clear contrast between the two characters. Lula is described as a beautiful woman with long red hair wearing obnoxious lipstick. Lula starts talking to Clay and to seduces him and gets very angry spontaneously for no apparent reason throughout the play. Clay, her opposite, is described as a young, educated black man (Maybe what Leroi pictured himself to be). In the play, Clay wears a nice suit and appears to be very interested in reading. Without looking at his skin color, one would easily think that Clay was a white man. When asked who he resembles, Clay compared himself to an old French poet. Throughout the whole play, Clays conversation and involvement with Lula is his own internal Man vs. Self struggle with his own racial identity. Lula starts harassing to a point where Clay breaks out of his White shell and tries to reclaim his black identity. During his long rant he terrorizes Lula with strong statements and Black Nationalist beliefs. This makes the audience think. Did Lula force Clay into this person or did she simply bring it to light? Clay in the beginning of the play seems to be sane and in control as he is causally using the train to travel to one of his good friends house for a party. This untrue for his counterpart as Lula is constantly in-and-out of reality swinging from moments of sanity to obscure references from her past. She is living in her own little fantasy world and is trying to suck Clay into it by using her sexuality. Clay stays calm for the majority of the train ride until Lula takes shots at his black identity, saying that the Whites want him dead or calling him Uncle Tom and telling him that he allows the white man to violate his mother while he cowards. After hearing this Clay whacks Lula in the face making her fall over. This is such a radical change that it makes you believe that Lula represents White society and how it can bring out the Black pride in even the most calm of African Americans. The entire relationship between Clay and Lula was a Man vs Man conflict between the two trying to establish Clays identity in society. Lula strongly believed she knew his type so she was determined to kill him even if he convinced her that he wasn’t which he did not which tragically led to his own death and figuratively the death of his Black Identity.