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The Disenfranchisement Of The Invisible Man And Jim Stark

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In the Movie Rebels Without a Cause there is a quote from the beginning in the planetarium, “Through the infinite reaches of space, the problems of man seem trivial and naive indeed, and man existing alone seems himself an episode of little consequence.” This quote works as a perfect base construct when exploring the disenfranchisement of The Invisible Man and Jim Stark.
In the story The Invisible Man the so called Invisible Man was an educated black man living in Harlem New York in the 1950s. He is disenfranchised because he cant fit in with white people and he is smarter than other black people. At the end of his story though, he realizes that the problems of man are trivial and naive. He stops attempting to live normally and uses his invisibility
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