Invisible Man: The Narrator

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try--" and the narrator's reply was a shut door. This shows that the
narrator knows he is not entirely visible or important to everyone. He had
then realized that he is just a player in a game.
In the end of the novel, the narrator sees that he is visible only
to certain people. Nobody cares what he does, as long as he does what is
expected. Towards the end of the novel, the narrator shows that he
understands his status with the white people when he refuses to consent to
sexual intercourse with a white woman.
The narrator actually does find himself. In the prologue, he says
"I myself, after existing some twenty years, did not become alive until
after discovering my invisibility." This shows that he has found himself
and that he knows his status with the whites. He sees that his purpose in
life is to follow the orders of white people; to be invisible. ...

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