![]() ![]() Ellison implies that if racists really saw their victims, they would not act the way they do. ![]() For others in the novel, it is simply convenient to define the narrator through his blackness.Įllison’s narrator explains that the outcome of this is a phenomenon he calls “invisibility”-the idea that he is simply “not seen” by his oppressors. As the narrator states at the novel’s beginning, “All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned somebody tried to tell me what it was.” It is undoubtedly clear that the narrator’s blackness comprises a large part of his identity, although this isn’t something he has necessarily chosen. ![]() Invisible Man is the story of a young man searching for his identity, unsure about where to turn to define himself. ![]()
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