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Mr. Norton In The Narrator, By Ralph Ellison

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Mr. Norton is the original founder of the college who deceives the Narrator into believing he is progressing toward success and equality; in reality he is still a slave to white interests. He morphs the Narrator’s mind into a one-track path that keeps the Narrator running in one direction; the path that benefits Mr. Norton but blinds the Narrator from his individuality and contributes to his unclear future, “people who seemed almost without individuality, a black mob that seemed to be waiting, looking with blank faces, and among them the inevitable collection of white men and women in smiles, clear of futures…” (Ellison 39). The Narrator is willing to become a part of the system because he desires to impress Mr. Norton and believes the college
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