Invisible Man Sparknotes

The novel started with an Invisible Man who described the early parts of his life in a hole full of light under Harlem. He had begun 20 years in the past with the trials he faced.He gave his valedictorian speech to upper-class white citizens.Before he delivered his speech the Invisible Man was forced to witness a nude white woman, joined a battle royal and shocked by a carpet. Tattered, he spoke his copied speech no attention paid to him and as a reward for “speaking” gets a scholarship to a southern colored college. Three years later at the college, the Invisible Man gets a job chauffeuring Mr. Norton, a white and wealthy trustee to the college around; the Invisible Man took him to True Blood's (a poor illiterate black man who got his own daughter pregnant)
The Brotherhood stood for the socially oppressed while Ras believed that blacks should fight for rights against all whites. Later, the Invisible Man received an anonymous letter that exclaimed his community and socialist acts were a little too good. After the mysterious letter, Brother Westrum accused the Invisible Man of his status being used for personal gain. So alas, the Invisible Man was demoted to another post: he was then a women's advocate. After the Invisible Man gave a speech on the “Women Question” one evening, the white wife of a Brotherhood member seduced him and fulfilled her fantasy about black men. The next day a worried Invisible Man was sent to Harlem once more and discovered Clifton missing, along with news of the lost interest in the Brotherhood. The Invisible Man discovered Clifton sold dancing “Sambo” dolls on the street. The dolls represented a laxed and pretentious slave. However, Clifton didn’t have a permit to sell which caused white policemen to squabble with Clifton and ultimately ended up shooting