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Impression of

Invisible Man


The narrator begins telling his story with the claim that he is an

invisible
man.


His
invisibility,
he
says,
is
not
a
physical
condition

he
is not literally invisible

but is rather the result of the refusal of
others
to
see
him.
He
says
that
because
of
his
invisibility,
he
has
been
hiding
from
the
world,
living
underground
and
stealing
electricity
from
the Monopolated Light & Power Company. He burns 1,369

light bulbs
simultaneously
and
listens
to
Louis
Armstrong

s

(What
Did
I
Do
to
Be
So)
Black and Blue

on a phonograph. He says that he has gone underground
in order to write the story of his life and invisibility.
As a young man, in the late 1920s or early 1930s, the narrator lived in
the South.
Because
he
is
a
gifted
public speaker, he is invited to give
a speech to a group of important white men in his town. The men reward
him with a briefcase containing a scholarship to a prestigious black
college,
but
only
after
humiliating
him
by
forcing
him
to
fight
in
a

battle
royal


in
which
he
is
pitted
against
other
young
black
men,
all
blindfolded,
in
a
boxing
ring.
After
the
battle
royal,
the
white
men
force
the
youths
to
scramble
over
an
electrified
rug
in
order
to
snatch
at
fake
gold
coins.
Three
years
later,
the
narrator
is
a
student
at
the
college.
He
is
asked
to
drive
a
wealthy
white
trustee
of
the
college,
Mr.
Norton,
around the
campus.
Norton
talks
incessantly
about
his
daughter,
then
shows
an
undue
interest
in
the
narrative
of
Jim
Trueblood,
a
poor,
uneducated
black
man
who
impregnated
his
own
daughter.
After
hearing
this
story,
Norton
needs
a
drink,
and
the
narrator
takes
him
to
the
Golden
Day,
a
saloon
and
brothel
that
normally
serves
black
men.
A
fight
breaks
out
among
a
group
of
mentally
imbalanced black veterans at the bar, and Norton passes out during the
chaos. He is tended by one of the veterans, who claims to be a doctor
and
who
taunts
both
Norton
and
the
narrator
for
their
blindness
regarding
race relations.

1
The
narrator
says
that
he
has
stayed
underground
ever
since;
the
end
of
his
story
is
also
the
beginning.
He
states
that
he finally
has
realized
that
he
must
honor
his
individual
complexity
and
remain
true
to
his own
identity
without
sacrificing
his
responsibility
to
the
community.
He
says
that he finally feels ready to emerge from underground.
Themes
As
the
narrator
of
Invisible
Man
struggles
to
arrive
at
a
conception
of
his own identity, he finds his efforts complicated by the fact that he
is
a
black
man
living
in
a
racist
American
society.
Throughout
the
novel,
the
narrator
finds
himself
passing
through
a
series
of
communities,
from
the
Liberty
Paints
plant
to
the
Brotherhood,
with
each
microcosm
endorsing
a
different
idea
of
how
blacks
should
behave
in
society.
As
the
narrator
attempts to define himself through the values and expectations imposed
on him, he finds that, in each case, the prescribed role limits his
complexity
as
an
individual
and
forces
him
to
play
an
inauthentic
part.
Upon
arriving
in
New
York,
the
narrator
enters
the world
of
the
Liberty
Paints plant, which achieves financial success by subverting blackness
in the service of a brighter white. There, the narrator finds himself
involved in a process in which white depends heavily on black

both in
terms
of
the
mixing
of
the
paint
tones
and
in
terms
of
the
racial
makeup
of the workforce. Yet the factory denies this dependence in the final
presentation of its product, and the narrator, as a black man, ends up
stifled.
Later,
when
the
narrator
joins
the
Brotherhood,
he
believes
that
he can fight for racial equality by working within the ideology of the
organization, but he then finds that the Brotherhood seeks to use him
as a token black man in its abstract project.
Ultimately, the narrator realizes that the racial prejudice of others
causes
them
to
see
him
only
as
they
want
to
see
him,
and
their
limitations
of
vision
in
turn
place
limitations
on
his
ability to
act.
He
concludes

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