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Summary: The Narrator reflects on how the college has shaped his values on his way to the chapel to listen to the Reverend's speech about the founder.

Quote: "'Tell us what is to be done, sir!' ...And the Founder is suddenly mute with tears” (Ellison, 125).

Question: How does Ellison employ irony throughout the Reverend's speech to give a dual-natured meaning to the Founder's legacy?

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Summary: the narrator applies for a job and waits for an answer.

Quote: “What was inside, and how could I open them undetected? They were tightly sealed. I had read that letters were sometimes steamed open, but I had no steam. I gave it up, I really didn’t need to know their contents and it would not be honorable or safe to tamper with Dr. Bledsoe” (Ellison, 163).

Question: Why does the narrator believe so strongly that the rich white business men will help him get a job?

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President Bledsoe is infuriated that Mr. Norton was injured due to the narrator’s actions of taking Mr. Norton to the area surrounding the school that negatively portrays it.

“Dr. Bledsoe stopped and composed his angry face like a sculptor,

making it a bland mask, leaving only the sparkle of his eyes to betray the emotion that I had seen only a moment before. (Ellison 102)”

Why was it so important for Bledsoe to foster the nature of his appeasement instead of revealing the true condition of the area?

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Summary: the narrator experiences a fight, a speech, and a dream, all degrading events.

Question: How do you think that the fight influenced his thinking that he has no self worth.

quote: "In those pre invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T Washington (page 18)."

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Summary: The narrator takes Mr. Norton on a ride through the slums of the slave corridors not knowing the effect of the events after the corridors visit would have on him.

Quote: “How could anyone’s fate be pleasant? I had always thought of it as something painful.”

Question: How does the narrator’s thoughts on fate foreshadow what might happen to him in the future?

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Summary - The narrator travels to New York in order to find a way to earn money.

Quote -  “Be your own father, young man. And remember, the world is possibility if only you'll discover it.” (Ellison 156)

Question - How does the narrator's pride hold him back and will it continue to occur in the future?

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Summary- The narrator meets Peter Wheatstraw and Emerson's son on his way to deliver the letter, later finding out that the letter is his expulsion letter.

quote- "But I am not bothered about all the other things, whatever they are, sir. They're not for me to interfere with and I'll be satisfied to go back to college and remain there as long as they will allow me to."

Question- How does Ellison compare the narrator and Dr. Bledsoe

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The narrator explains that his invisibility is not due to some accident, but rather to the unwillingness of other people to notice him, as he is black in a dominately white society.

"I myself, after existing twenty some years, did not become alive until I discovered my invisibility.” (Pg xiii)

Why do you think that the narrator depicts only himself as “invisible”? Do you think he is self-centered in thinking this way, or is he just ignorant to the fact that there are other people who share his same struggles?

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The narrator fears his troubles with Norton will get him kicked out of the school and attempts to save him.

“And you, for all your power, are not a man to him, but a God, a force” (Ellison 95)

Can the vet’s statement be applied to the narrator as well as Norton? If so how?

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“Ni***r, this isn't the time to lie. I'm no white man. Tell the truth!”

The invisible man lies to Dr.Bledsoe in order to protect his education, but when the Doctor discovers his words aren't necessarily the true, the man begins experience hardships again.

How through Dr. Bledsoe's words does the double standard become apparent?