The Deceived Invisible Man :: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

In the covert Man, by Ralph Ellison, our main image struggles to strike his place in society. Throughout the novel, he finds himself in power-struggles. At the inauguration of the novel, we see the narrator as a student in an Afro-American college. He plays a large role in the school as an upstanding student. Later, we see the Invisible Man once again as an important member of an organization known as the Brotherhood. In both(prenominal) situations he is working, indirectly, to pay off a place in a changing initiation of homogony. In each circumstance he finds himself deceived in a uninfected mans world. The Invisible man originally wanted to tweak from his college to be a professor, perhaps even the president of the college. His dream and flavor as he knew it was crushed when he was expelled from school for taking a white alumni to a black neighborhood where he should not have gone. The president of the college reprimands him for not having enough common sense to show the white man what he wanted to see. Dr. Bledsoe, the president, believes that it is necessary to lie to the white man. He calls The Invisible man a nigger. By this act, Bledsoe is stating that he feels superior. Dr. Bledsoe promises the Invisible Man letters of recommendation to white businessmen in spic-and-span York. He finds that in truth the letters are mocking him and stating that he will never be invited back to the college again. Bledsoe masks his respect for the white man, signing the letter, Respectfully, I am your humble servant. This power struggle in the midst of the white man, the powerful black man, and the black citizen is a twisted stack of trying to please the other. The Invisible man meets a character named Brother goofball. He is a member of the Brotherhood, an organization desiring peace mingled with races. It can be said that the Brotherhood represents American communism. Brother Jack is the head of power. Once the invisible man finds his place as a pol itical figure in the Brotherhood he is successful. He is a strong speaker and the public loves him. He receives a note warn him that he was moving too fast and that it is a white mans world. In the end, he discovers that it was Brother Jack, the very man fighting for equality, who was obligated for the letter.