Invisible Man by Ralph Elison

Invisible Man by Ralph Elison is an epic novel of 1952.it

addresses the issues and problems which the Afro American

faced as the case of the protagonist of the novel who is unnamed

 and invisible character and went through handicaps and

dilemma to reach recognition and visibility .the unnamed

character is the narrator of the story .

The invisible man suffered from the separation between blacks

and whites since he is black man, so he moved from south to

north looking for no separation , recognition and visibility.the

invisible man explains his invisibility which not because he has

biological or accidental problems but because people refuse to

see him ,because of the stereotypes of people.

There were many events which show that people do not

recognize him to the point that the invisible man recognized

that invisibility leads to irresponsibility as when he steel an

electric power from a neighbour who did not asked him to pay

for it because he do not consider him a human .people used to

talk with him only when they need something from him

however all the dramatic events which happened to the

invisible man led him to became responsible and finally reach

recognition which means his own identity.

The invisible man moved from self efficiency student to a naive

worker then a radical activist and finally in the underground

then he emerged from the underground. At the end ,the

invisible man accepted his complexity and diversity and

decided to move on from the underground.