Dr. Bledsoe Character Analysis

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The people I chose to use in my scrapbook were the narrator and Dr. Bledsoe because they both were some of the main characters in the book. I would have had too many pages if I used more characters that what I did. In the story the narrator is the main character. On his page there is his “name” and a picture of a man with a top hat, glasses, and a suit on, but there is no face to go with it. This is to explain that he is the invisible man. Along with the pictures are many small things that are important parts of the character. First, there is a small car which is supposed to be the car he drove Mr. Nelson around in. This refers to the chapters 2 and 3 when he drives Mr. Norton into the part of town where Trueblood lives. This is when Mr. Norton gets overemotional about the fact that Trueblood could sleep with his own daughter and passes out in his car. He loses his job driving Mr. Norton and gets expelled by Dr. Bledsoe because of it. This chapter was when the narrator’s life began to change and he went to New York City to earn his year’s tuition. The car stands for the change that was going to happen in the beginning of the story when he started on his journey.
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There is a church and another mask. The church isn’t that important to the story, but refers to when the narrator was moved by Reverend Barbee’s sermon. The sermon was about the founder of the college and how he got to where he was. The founder is found as a bronze statue in the book when in the campus. The mask is the most important thing on the page because it represents the two-faced personality that Bledsoe has. Bledsoe is the other character because he is the main phony of all of the characters. He lied to the narrator and was about to lie to Mr. Norton, but he couldn’t because the narrator threatened to tell Mr. Norton that he lied about keeping his promise not to punish