So far in the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison the main setting takes place in New York. Throughout the chapters there are various setting that take place in New York like the ballroom, the countryside by the college, the Golden Day, the chapel, and Dr. Bledsoe’s office. The ballroom is an important setting in this novel because it is where the reader gets to see what the white citizens make the black people do and the narrator delivers his speech here too. The white citizens decide to treat them really bad and use them as a form of entertainment. The citizens treated them very badly and where calling them names while everyone was trying to fight each other: “I want to get at that ginger-colored nigger. Tear him limb from limb” (Ellison
