More specifically he moved to Harlem, a major center of African- American culture. The narrator finds the different between the North and South unbelievable. He is amazed to find white drivers obeying the directions of black policemen, on the subway he stresses out about being to close to a white woman, and in a diner he wonders if it’s insulting to tip a white waiter. In the North, the narrator experiences an undeniable amount of extraordinary racial freedom and feels as if he was transported to another planet. This was different for him, going from a place where he was treated like an object of entertainment to being seen as a working …show more content…
His boss fights him and he is knocked unconscious. When he arrives at the hospital the white doctors use his unconscious body in electroshock experiments.
A major theme in the novel is fighting like with like. In this case, stereotypes are battling back and forth. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a stereotype is to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. The narrator has been set back by the limitations of African American stereotypes. When he joins the Brotherhood, those groups of African Americans live according to these stereotypes, as a defense strategy.
Finally in the end, he is hardened by all of his traumatic experiences. He seduces the girlfriend of one of the leaders of the Brotherhood just to get information out of her. Although his plan backfires because she doesn’t have the information he needs, this is the first time in the novel that he made a decision for himself. He realizes that it is better to stay true to you than true to a corrupt group for social