Effect of Invisibility on the Narrators Character Growth How does “invisibility” affect the narrators character growth.
Invisible Man is African American author Ralph Ellison’s only novel. It was published in 1952 and is about an African American man who is rendered invisible by the color of his skin. He clarifies that he does not mean he is literally invisible, like a ghost or spirit.He is invisible in the sense that the dominant white society does not acknowledge his personhood. This passage is also significant because it foreshadows the narrator’s hiding. As he tells his story, the narrator is hiding underground syphoning power from an electric company.
