The narrator represents himself as a young man who lack of experience. Although he thinks that he is educated, the narrator has been through alot and now accepts the ideas by others. He is unable to answer his own answers to issues and lacking a sense of his identity. The narrator does not have a clear sense of who he is and how he fits into society. Similarly, the narrator has not developed himself. As the chapter 7 summary states “he tells the narrator to hide himself from white people, from authority, from the invisible man who is pulling his strings”(cliff notes). The narrator seems to not know what to do for himself without someone telling him. He also doesn't have the self-confidence to challenge other peoples authority such as Bledsoe