French Warren says, "There 's a possibility that even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play" (GaleGroup.com pg. 3). Each person has a purpose on this earth, and it 's only through life 's challenges that we will find out that purpose. The character in the story finds his talents when faced with challenges to enter college. He learns to use his talents and takes on a nice career. He speaks out for a small black family, and joins a white brotherhood that speaks politically. He loses himself while being part of this brotherhood. Then the character is threatened by a black man for “betraying his race”. The man then is swallowed up by the Earth, and is forced to live in an underground cave, living as the invisible man, until he …show more content…
These journeys take place in the immediate context of the late Depression, but, as they unfold, their implications extend backward in time to the Reconstruction, slavery, and the founding of the Republic, and outward from the protagonist 's self to the social situation of black America and to the very nature of the democratic experiment.”(James Press