Vusumzi Make states in Angelou, The Heart of a Woman, “The root cause of racism and its primary result is that whites refuse to see us [blacks] as people.”. This quotation illustrates the theme of alienation present throughout Invisible Man because by refusing to see African Americans as people they become isolated from a large part of the world. For the duration of the of the novel, Invisible Man observes and feels alienation forced upon others and himself. As the novel progresses Invisible Man slowly begins to accept his fate and decides to disconnect himself from society before society disconnects him.
Over the course of the book Invisible Man disconnects himself from everything he's familiar with as he realizes