The Symbolism Of The Narrator In The Invisible Man, By Ralph Ellison

They labeled the narrator of the invisible man more often than a packet of cigarettes. Throughout the novel, they called him a rapist, a lover, a doctor and a good singer confuse it with a Reverend, a pimp, a player, a snitch, a trade unionist, a "South “a "black, of New York". He has no defined identity, during the whole novel that the narrator tries to obtain a defined identity or personality there is always something or someone that repress his ideas and his opinions.
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows… When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination – indeed, everything and anything except me”.(Ellison 3) This state that even thought the narrator is there and people can see him, they actually choose not to see him and ignored him for who he is including when he has strong …show more content…
When a novel that is explicitly about the ills that are carried out in the name of racism mentioned white paint, as well, already you know that the thing will be quite symbolic. In any case, in order to create this pure white (this is interesting), the Narrator must now add ten drops of black ink in each bucket, it mist be just ten drops of painting. It is normal to correlated this to the meaning of the differences of white and blacks in the United States at that time. This represent that this company 's paints show the need for the black contribution to a United States white. Although many people in Invisible Man believe that United States is a country of white; United States would not be United States without the contribution of the black population. In addition to this, the name Liberty paints is ironic, since it implies freedom for all; something that clearly the Narrator does not live through all this