Narrator tired to follow through
his grandfather’s belief and advice, but it did not help him, it just brought
him troubles. He experienced so many things, such as seeing how the power and
authority looks like (Sybil helped him with that), he pretended to be Rinehart,
man who had so many identities in his life, then he almost died. All things
happened with a reason to the Invisible Man. All things that happened to him,
especially now at the end when he was faced with the death, helped the narrator
to prove what he already knew that he was invisible, tool, material, that other
people used for their benefits.
“I was simply a material, a natural resource to be used. I had switched from the arrogant absurdity of Norton and Emerson to that of Jack and the Brotherhood, and it all came out the same-except now I recognized my invisibility.”
“My ambition and integrity were nothing to them and my failure was as meaningless as Clifton’s. It had been that way all along. Only in the Brotherhood had there seemed a chance for such as us, the mere glimmer of a light, but behind the polished and humane façade of Jack’s eye I’d found an amorphous form and a harsh red rawness. And even that was without meaning except for me. Well, I was and yet I am invisible… I was and yet I was unseen.”
After recognition that he was used, he decided to live his own life, new life without illusions or fake ideals, the life where he would be the master of his life, and where he could help himself and his black African community.
“And I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others, whether for Ras’s or Jack’s.”
“I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being for society and then against it, I assign myself no rank or any limit and such an attitude is very mych against the trend of the times… I am invisible, but not blind!”
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our gate is to become one, and yet many.”
“I was simply a material, a natural resource to be used. I had switched from the arrogant absurdity of Norton and Emerson to that of Jack and the Brotherhood, and it all came out the same-except now I recognized my invisibility.”
“My ambition and integrity were nothing to them and my failure was as meaningless as Clifton’s. It had been that way all along. Only in the Brotherhood had there seemed a chance for such as us, the mere glimmer of a light, but behind the polished and humane façade of Jack’s eye I’d found an amorphous form and a harsh red rawness. And even that was without meaning except for me. Well, I was and yet I am invisible… I was and yet I was unseen.”
After recognition that he was used, he decided to live his own life, new life without illusions or fake ideals, the life where he would be the master of his life, and where he could help himself and his black African community.
“And I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others, whether for Ras’s or Jack’s.”
“I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being for society and then against it, I assign myself no rank or any limit and such an attitude is very mych against the trend of the times… I am invisible, but not blind!”
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our gate is to become one, and yet many.”
