On the contrary, the narrator is much more politically innocent and exists somewhere between capitalist and communist ideology. He aspires to break through the invisibility and find his self-identity and only through the interactions with woman can his masculinity be fully addressed. In chapter 18, the narrator is put in charge of the “woman question” as a punishment for him being too standout. The narrator’s reaction is “I felt as though I had been spun like a top” (Ellison 406) and “I had just been made the butt of an outrageous joke” (Ellison 407). The intense misogynistic feelings toward women in general reveal the narrator’s strong masculist self-cognition which conforms to the Brotherhood’s actual gender rule. It is ironic that the Brotherhood,
