controlled by white men throughout his life. As the narrator, he is nameless throughout the novel as he journeys

from the South, where he studies at an all-black college, to Harlem where he joins a Communist-like party

known as the Brotherhood. Throughout the novel, the narrator is on a search for his true identity. Several letters

are given to him by outsiders that provide him with a role: student, patient, and a member of the Brotherhood.

One by one he discards these as he continues to grow closer to the sense of his true self. The entire story can

be summed up when the narrator says "I'm an invisible man and it placed me in a hole- or showed me the hole I

was in...." (455). During the novel, the narrator values several important things, which shape his identity as well

as his future. Through his experiences and the people he has met, the narrator discovers the important values

of his education, his invisibility, and the meaning of his grandfather's advice.

The narrator, a very intelligent man never had the chance to use his education to the full extent because

someone was always there putting him down.

was a very evil man that was out to get rid of the narrator. Bledsoe had a lot of hatred towards the narrator after

that by sending him to New York he would not get a job, and therefore not be able to return to school. This

doors for him, introducing him to new people, and a different way of life.

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