A certain thing that I noticed about the author’s style is that he keeps making little references to him being invisible. At the beginning of the book is when you get the first glimpse of him being “invisible”. On page 4 the author gives an example of his invisibility when he nearly kills a man on the street that bumped into him, even though the man hadn’t seen him and was just an accident. Throughout the book there are instances where he refers to himself as invisible or others call him that, such as on page 92 where the war veteran calls him invisible because he does what everyone expects him to do and not always what he wants to.
This book is filled humor, which gives me a wide range of quotes to choose from when deciding my favorites. On page 5, Ralph commented on the “mugging” in the news, “Poor fool, poor blind fool, I
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In the beginning of the book, his persistence towards doing well in school and getting back to the college shows how strong his character is and his will to be an example for other African Americans to follow. As the invisible man, he never reveals much about himself. You never know his name or where this book started, you only know his thoughts and actions. Throughout the book he grows from being naïve, like the situation with Mr. Norton and the Golden Day where he does whatever he can to please him, to understanding his role in society when he could barely find a job in the city. Another important character was Dr. Bledsoe. Without him, the invisible man would never had ventured into the city and realized the harsh reality of a black man in a white man’s world. Although he is never physically present in the novel, the reputation of Rinehart is very important in this book. While the narrator is trying to portray himself as someone else, he is mistaken as Rinehart, which is ironic since he is trying to be invisible but is instead recognized as someone who portrays different