Invisible Man: The Voice Of The Dispossessed

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scene is shocking and nightmarish, but serves to set the tone for the surreal delivery of his speech. After the battle royal his mouth is bleeding and his eye is swollen. He's having a hard tInvisible Mane seeing the crowd. We can make symbolic connections to his Invisible Manpaired vision and how he does not see his circumstance very clearly, as well as the blood he must swallow to continue his speech. The white men ignore hInvisible Man and only occasionally ask hInvisible Man to repeat something he has said, until he stumbles over the words social "equality." The room becomes deadly quiet and, "The laughter hung smokelike in the sudden stillness." The crowd begins booing and yelling things at hInvisible Man and eventually he corrects the word to the original phrase social "responsibility." Worried that it may not have been a slip of the tongue, he's told that they "want to do right by hInvisible Man" but he must remember his place. At this point, the reader is able to ...

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Man by surprise. He seemed to be outside his body talking, "No, no, … Black brothers! That's not the way." Yet, conscious of it or not, he is able to articulate exactly the "dispossession" that the crowd feels. They are ready and willing to do whatever he tells them to do. Invisible Man causes such a fury that the police show up and he ends up running away (a recurring theme in the book). One man, Brother Jack, is so Invisible Manpressed with Invisible Man's speaking skills that he offers hInvisible Man a good paying job in an organization only referred to as the Brotherhood. Invisible Man accepts and this takes hInvisible Man into a world he never knew existed, let alone dared ...

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