Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Sellout, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Progress vs. Regress
Blackness, Origins, and Home
Stereotypes and Absurdity
Criminality, Authority, and the Law
Gender, Sex, and Hypersexualization
Summary
Analysis
On the day after “the black dude” was inaugurated, Foy drove around waving an American flag. The narrator asked him why, pointing out the ongoing injustice in America. Foy shook his head and told him that he would never understand. The narrator says that Foy was right: “I never will.”
