Examples Of Power In Invisible Man

In Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, power suppression infuses in the story from the beginning due to the main character/narrator lacking a name and just being called Invisible Man. Throughout the novel, the narrator power-struggles to find his identity due to the fact that he is constantly remembered that he is living in a white man’s world.
In the beginning of the novel, the narrator is introduced as an outstanding student in an African-American College. He later own wanted to graduate and become the college professor, but he was expelled from the college for taking a white college man into a black neighborhood. As a result, Dr.Bledsoe, the college president, reprimands him for showing the white man exactly what the white folk desired to see. Dr.Bledsoe then sends letters to white businessmen in New York, and Invisible Man realizes at that point that he will probably never get accepted into a black college ever again. In the novel, Dr.Bledsoe is portrayed as a character that respects white man’s superiority through the letter when he signs as their humble servant. He reminds the narrator that they are living in a white man’s society and that Invisible Man has no power over this suppression because of his race. …show more content…
He becomes a strong speaker and is showered with the public’s attention and love. Throughout his leadership he receives a note warning him that he was moving too quickly in a white man’s world. As a result, he finds out that the one who sent him the letter was Bother Jack, the leader of the Brotherhood fighting for equality. The Invisible man felt that he had no power, once again reminded that he could not strive in a white superior society. In both places he finds himself growing towards finding his own identity, however he ends up finding himself mislead in the white man’s