Lutie is the only working adult in the family but makes the decision to leave her family behind, including her own son Bub. She decides to leave because she is fed up with the visible and invisible walls erected against her every time she is rejected. “She leaned even more against the wall, almost seemed to sink into it, and started crying… When she left the building, it was snowing heavily. The wind blows the snow against her face... She thinks confusedly about the best place to go. She decided Chicago wasn’t too far and it was big” (Petry 390, 434). Lutie has given up on herself because she doesn't get money or support from anyone. The visible wall in her apartment is the same analogy as the invisible wall placed in front of her in public. Every time she looks for an opportunity to sing with a promising salary, an invisible wall comes up because she either doesn't get paid or she has to sleep with men to get paid. Wall is opposed to a veil, a term used by WEB Du Bois, in which everyone can see through the woven fabric. If the veil is a metaphor used throughout the story, instead of a wall, Lutie could have seen the danger she puts herself in with men, who are only interested in sleeping with her and him offering sugar-coated singing contracts, and escaping as soon as possible. Towards the end of the story, like Lutie