A Change In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

The story of the Invisible Man is told from the point of view of a negro man that is completely withdrawn from society and it is one of gradual disillusionment. In Invisible Man, the narrator makes a complete U-turn from his naive younger self to his disillusioned older self. This drastic change can make the narrator almost be considered two different characters: the narrator at the beginning and end of the story and the young man who experiences life in the story. Representing the all-too-well known case of the “mis-educated Negro”, the narrator is brought up to hate his own people and because of this he is insistent on distancing himself from whom he views subsidiary. Disregarding the racial aspect of the narrator, he exemplifies the archetypal