Ralph Ellison uses the narrator in Invisible Man to portray how the narrator’s alienation shows the society’s assumptions and moral values. It is very apparent his society was not how it is today by way of the examples given in the book. Many examples in the book can cause one to believe that there was a negative aspect to the society.

The first example that came up in the book is when the narrator was given the scholarship. Normally, this would be a wonderful thing, and to the narrator it was. However, the reader knows that the men expected him to fail and how the narrator had to be humiliated in order to get something he honestly deserved. There are many other examples in the book where the reader knows the t

rue characteristics of a character when other characters don’t. This shows how the whites in the society were mostly manipulative and when it seemed like they did something “good”, they had bad intentions for the whole situation. The people in the society also ignored and openly oppressed blacks with no shame or guilt.

Conclusively, the narrator and his journeys during his life explain a lot about himself and how the society was a big influence on his final outcome. Living in that type of society limits how far an individual can go and limited the narrator’s dreams. The examples given will make one not want to be apart of such a degrading society that does not lift its people up, but only tears them down. This is an atmosphere no one would want to live in.

No one

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