How the idea of being invisible transforms from a barrier to an advantage for the narrator in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man."
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Invisible Man Essay
Throughout Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the unnamed narrator constantly questions his identity in many ways. While his immediate concerns, such as why he was where he was or what he should do there, changed on a situational basis; he consistently put to question the idea of his "invisibility." Though the definition of invisibility was always constant to the …
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…in his invisibility. At one point, the narrator thought, "How different my life could have been!" thinking of if he had realized the usefulness of his invisibility sooner. When the novel closed, the narrator was claiming that he was ready to leave his state of hibernation and return to society. The audience is only left to wonder, as blindly as Dr. Bledsoe, Mr. Norton and Brother Jack, how different, in fact, will his life be?
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