First, the white men bring out a naked blond woman and force the black boys to look at the women. But the reader is presented with the truth of what is actually going on when he arrives to meet these men. In the narrator’s eyes, the white men are rewarding his submissive nature. The speech was so well received that the town arranged for him to give the speech in front of the town’s most influential white leaders. The speech stressed submission as the way for black Americans to advance in the social structure. The narrator starts by reminiscing about his class speech during his high school graduation. In chapter one, we are introduced to the narrator and quickly we see that he is being dominated by white confines of racism and stereotypes. Through this progression, the narrator is able to beat away racist attitudes. Later on, we find that the invisible man eventually develops into a man capable of fighting stereotypes and racism in a very visible way. However, as the novel progresses, the narrator finds a way to remain invisible, yet take power from those who previously held it. These white men are completely blind to what black men really are. In the beginning of the story, the narrator is treated by white men as the stereotypical black male - sex-hungry, poor and violent. The narrator in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man views himself as invisible because he believes the world is full of blind men who cannot see him for who is really is.
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