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VISION. Expresses the need for constant light, or unhindered vision. By remaining unseen while being able to see the rest of the world perfectly he feels some kind of superiority. Because he is living in the “light,” he can accept invisibility as part of his identity. Prologue. Chapter 1.
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Expresses the need for constant light, or unhindered vision. By remaining unseen while being able to see the rest of the world perfectly he feels some kind of superiority. Because he is living in the “light,” he can accept invisibility as part of his identity. Prologue
Chapter 1 • Before he understands that he is “invisible”, he sees the world in a “smoke of a hundred cigars.” • He feels ashamed that he cannot help but watch the dancer and sees her through a smoky “veil,” just as he sees the rest of the world.
Chapter 2 “In my minds’ eye I see the bronze statue of the college founder... unable to decide whether the veil is being lifted or lowered more firmly in place” (36).
Chapter 3 “He’s Invisible, a walking personification of the Negative” (94).
“Then in a twinkling of my eyes it was gone” (100). • In one moment he sees the school through his tears like a mirage. • It seems like a sort of Eden. Chapter 4
The founder seems to constantly watch over Bledsoe and the narrator as they argue. CHAPTER 6 He’s gradually becoming “disillusioned” “...the race needs good, smart, disillusioned fighters” (145).
Chapter 7 ...learn to look beneath the surface...Come our of the fog, young man...You’re hidden right out in the open...they wouldn’t see you because they don’t expect you to know anything... This seems to become his mission later in the book.
Chapter 8 ...even when they were polite they hardly saw me...I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable” (168). This is the first time he’s really felt invisible. He will believe later that not only is it desirable, but completely necessary.
Chapter 9 “...the sun burned warm upon my eyes.” Confidence His eyes reflect the confidence he feels as he heads toward Mr. Emerson’s office. “...I rubbed my eyes, and they felt sandy as though all the fluids had suddenly dried.” Confusion His eyes hurt when he becomes “disillusioned”.
Chapter 10 “I hurried with the others through the fog” (196). He can’t see what he’s getting into when he first arrives at the factory. “And in that clear instant of consciousness I opened my eyes to a blinding flash” (230). When he leaves the factory, after the explosion, he has more knowledge of the world and it’s inequalities in work.
Chapter 16 • In his speech he tells the crowd that they must regain their sight because blindness has caused oppression and racial division. • As he stumbles away from the platform, he feels blind himself. (The blind leading the blind...)
Chapter 22 Just like Rev. Barbee, Brother Jack is blind as well. In fact, it seems that all the members of the Brotherhood are blind to their own beliefs. In an attempt to reject racism, they’re creating it. Brother Jack’s glass eye represents an attempt to hide the blindness of the Brotherhood.
Chapter 23 • By putting on the sun glasses while disguised as Rinehart, the narrator enters another world, or at least gains the ability to see the world differently. • He decides while wearing the glasses that even while he is invisible to others, he will remain visible to himself.
