When the young man gets out of the hospital he heads for Harlem. When he comes to his senses after this episode, he finds himself in the hospital overhearing the doctors’ words that he was a mental patient and subject to shock treatment. This mistrust widens the chasm between them, leading Brockway to exploit him and framing him in setting an explosion in the boiler section. He comes to know that Lucius is obsessed with the idea that the young man is after his job. Emerson suggests he seek work in a paint factory where he works in different departments temporarily.ĭuring that time, he comes across Lucius Brockway, a paranoid chief, in the boiler operating room. Emerson to the narrator that the so-called recommendation letters contained nothing good about the narrator, also stating that he’s unfit for work and had no intention of re-enrolling him in the college. Bledsoe has rather ruined his entire career in both education and the job market when it was revealed by young Mr. Therefore, he thinks it better to expel the narrator who, though gets many recommendation letters from him to assist him in the job market yet he does not succeed in laying his hands upon anything. Bledsoe, the president, fuming at his home for showing insolence in taking Mr. When he returns to the college, he finds Dr. Norton out of this mess and take him back to the college campus. The young man, however, musters up the courage to pull Mr. Norton, is injured due to the melee created by the people. The pandemonium forces him to take assistance from the orderly who, while saving Mr. Norton confronts mentally unsound people and prostitutes enjoying life. The narrator hurriedly drives him to the nearest bar filled with prostitutes and mental patients. Norton shook by this scandalous issue, asks the narrator to find him a drink. Jim Trueblood who has already created a brouhaha by impregnating both his wife and daughter in his sleep. By chance, he stops by the cabin owned by some Mr. Norton, a trustee of that college, to the slave apartments beyond the campus area. It happens that he gets admission to that college and takes Mr. However, he has to participate in the battle royal to entertain the white dignitaries in order to receive that scholarship against other African American students. He reflects upon his life as a teenager when living in a Southern town after winning a scholarship for an African American college. Fed up of the discrimination, he thinks about social invisibility and ways to tackle it. As the story by Ralph Ellison ends, the narrator vows to continue staying underground.The storyline presents an anonymous African American young man who happens to live in a basement with stolen electricity from the local grid station. The Brotherhood is completely weakened and riot breaks in Harlem. Because of honoring Clifton, the Brotherhood sees him as a traitor. On return to Harlem, the narrator discovers the Brotherhood is no longer strong. He is later moved to a different area where a white woman seduces the narrator. At Harlem, the narrator meets Tod Clifton and Ras. The group demands the narrator should change his name and break from his past. When the narrator opposes the eviction of Mary through a speech, Brotherhood hires him as their spokesperson. The narrator collapses in the street and is rescued by Mary. The impact makes the narrator unconscious.Īt the hospital, the doctors use the narrator as a specimen for an electric shock experiment. The fight between the narrator and Lucius Brockway causes an explosion at the company. Emmerson’s son helps the narrator secure a low-paying job. ![]() Emerson’s son reads the letter and reveals to the narrator that the letter portrays him in a bad light. Bledsoe expels the narrator sending him to look for a job.Īlthough the narrator has a letter of recommendation, it does not help in his job search. Bledsoe, the college president, later chastises the narrator as he heard the encounter the narrator had with Norton at the brothel. When back at the college, there is a sermon given by Reverend Homer talking of the founder of the college. Norton passes out during a fight that ensues. On a visit to a brothel that is frequented by black men, Mr. Norton, a wealthy trustee around the college. Read the Rest of the Book Synopsis HereĪfter three years, the readers encounter the narrator as a young man in college. ![]() Later that night, he dreams that the scholarship is not real. Although he is humiliated in the “battle royal,” he later gives a speech and is rewarded with a briefcase that contains scholarship documents. He is invited to give a speech attended by white men that live in his town. ![]() He lives underground, and that is where he writes the story.Ī narrator is a young man between 20 and 30. Though he is not physically invisible, people tend not to see him because of his low stature in society. The story is about the struggles of an unnamed boy of American Origin.
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