The Invisible Man is about a young man who wanted to escape the racial division between whites and blacks in the early 20th century. The narrator never gave his own names because he is unknown and mysterious to the reader, and this emphasizes on his invisibleness on …show more content…
However, Ellison is trying to do the opposite by presenting these stereotypes against African Americans; Ellison is showing the world the condition of blacks in society and what is needed to change. “I am an invisible man…I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me” (Ellison 3). Ellison uses this quote to show the narrator is invisible, not physically invisible, but invisible to the eyes of others because of this skin color. Ellison at the time advocate for civil liberties and to spread his message, Ellison wrote books in order to have equal