The book was titled "Invisible Man" because the book is about being socially invisible. The narrator feels like she's invisible because no one sees him for himself. Instead of that people see him as a black man and nothing more. They don't even look deeper into who he is and what he stands for. With that being said, the narrator runs with that. That made him hibernate in a secrete room in a basement of a building full of white tenants. The narrator hisses there waiting for some sort of action to take place so that he can be seen but he doesn't know what that action is yet. The war vet starts to explain the idea of invisibility when he starts discussing how the black men are expected to hold back their emotions and feelings to follow the white
