"Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio"

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Aside from the heat and hard work put forth in a blast furnace, describing the African American's faces as gray emphasizes the formation of ash upon the worker's faces, making them seem as if they are decaying.

The watchman is also described as "ruptured," which implies that some aspect of his life is broken apart and unstable.

Both the blast furnace and the company, Wheeling Steel, deal with the production and shaping of metals. This implies that the men at the football game are stiff, cold, and hard to change, just like the materials they work with.