Invisible Man characters
Mr. Norton is a rich man who boasts to be the white. Such a desperate behavior to be superior makes the reader think that Mr. Norton is highly liberal; moreover, he is counted as a philanthropic individual. As a result, he hides his true intentions. While the narrator asks Mr. Norton...
Jim Trueblood appears as a complex character with the ambiguous perception of his true self. Firstly, a reader finds out that he is illiterate, ignorant man who commits incest with his daughter. However, this impression is not of the utmost importance for the reader in terms of the essence of the...
Society’s presumptions about the narrator tend to be rather mistaken since no one knows his true essence. For some reason, he is considered to be the nameless protagonist who is also reflected in the title of the novel. 1930s America with all the stereotypes and racial preconceptions...
The figure of the Grandfather is rather vague. He is more reflected in the thoughts and fears of the narrator. The Grandfather’s character is the one who truly knows the thoughts of the narrator. It is worth noting that the Grandfather is the person of old believes since he offers the...
The president of the protagonist’s college, Dr. Bledsoe firstly appears as a man with highly humanistic ideas and conceptions. He serves as an example for the narrator. With the flow of time, the protagonist finds out that Dr. Bledsoe views are dramatically ambiguous. At the first part of...
A man from Chicago who is highly religious since he covers the occupation of a preacher is Reverend Homer A. Barbee. The reader gets acquainted with this character due to the fact that he visits the protagonist in the college. He is described to be an impassionate speaker. The reader may find out...
The bartender at the Golden Day is called Big Halley. Though he is a minor character, his importance to the general idea of the story is of the utmost importance. The fact is that Supercargo is formally charged with maintaining orders at the Golden Day. However, the truth is that Big Halley is the...
The most interesting location of Invisible Man is the Golden Days which is a bar and a whorehouse at the same time. Since the story tells us about the attitude to the blacks, it is not difficult to find out what kind of women are prostitutes. Hester is one of them. She is a black-skinned...
Edna is the other woman who works in the Golden Day with Hester. She is much loved by men who claim to be superior on a daily basis. Though she boasts with popularity, Edna hates the man, especially the whites. She claims they are cruel and treacherous. There is every reason for Edna to hate...
A veteran is a black man with a specific viewpoint. He is the one to have a direct relation to the World War the Second. He is housed in a mental asylum for some reason; however, he seems to be even more conscious of the general situation with racism than those who are addressed to be aware of the...
A man of the giant physique is Supercargo. Though he is one of the blacks, he has a job. Moreover, he has some power over people. He seems not to be suppressed by the whites. However, his life is even more difficult. Supercargo works as an attendant who supervises mentally disabled people; they...