If he was truly invisible, then there wouldn’t be any overt acts against him. The question that needs to be answered in this novel is whether the narrator was truly invisible, or if he was visible, yet discriminated against.
He cannot find a job because of the poor letters of recommendation, and he initially had problems getting into the college because of a man who was keeping him from this, while focusing on the story of Huckleberry Finn, stating that he was “Huckleberry,” and he was the only white man who would be sympathetic to the narrator in those racially charged times. Moreover, throughout the novel, he is constantly subjected to discrimination and prejudice. The humiliations that he is subjected to includes being forced to participate in a boxing match with another black man, blindfolded, in a boxing ring just so that he can get to college being told that he was given good letters of recommendation, when, in actuality, these letters of recommendation portrayed him as lazy and shiftless and being used by various white women to act out their fantasies of either being raped by a black man or having sex with one. And the narrator also is a part of a black liberation movement.
After reading The Invisible Man, the question is whether the narrator was truly invisible, or if he was visible, but ed to discrimination? The narrator in this novel is somebody who is invisible, yet also subjected to humiliations and women who try to use him to act out their fantasies.
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