| Boxing | Violin | ||
| bout | concert | ||
| inside | outdoors | ||
| night | daylight | ||
| corruption | innocence | ||
| cash | food | ||
| electric light | candle | ||
| boxing card | Rubens Maddona & child | ||
| head | heart | ||
| money | soul | ||
| commerce | art | ||
| gangster | artist | ||
| baldness | hariness | ||
| boxing glove | pliant hand | ||
| syndicate | family | ||
| classlessness | working class | ||
| sports car | taxi | ||
| reporters' stories | father's word | ||
| asocial, solitary | familiar, communal | ||
| anonymous gifts | cherished presents | ||
| buying people | embracing people | ||
| hotel | railroad flat | ||
| profane | sacred | ||
| Joe in boxing shorts | Joe and the violin | ||
| naked and naieve | nude and innocent | ||
| boxing ring | dining table | ||
| capitalists | workers | ||
| screaming alone in a crowd | singing together in living room | ||
| bad gangster passes out bribes | good father traffics in love | ||
| hired labor in service of death | free work creating beauty | ||
| alienation | connection | ||
| capitalist world | socialist community | ||
| black hat | white hat | ||
| "cut me up in little pieces" | "Papa, I'm home" | ||
| shadows | sustaining light | ||
| murder | resurrection | ||
| machine oiled and polished | organism, fed and loved | ||
| corruption | innocence | ||
| job | consious | ||
| monarch of the masses | father of the family | ||