Set in the 1930s, varying between a black college in the south and a place in Harlem, New York, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man takes the reader through the journey of a man who seeks to act according to the values and expectations of his immediate social group, but seems to find himself unable to reconcile his socially imposed role as a black man with his inner concept of identity, or even to understand his inner identity. Ellison implores the reader to explore and tackle the sensitive subject of racism while requiring the reader to carefully examine themselves.
The narrator, an unnamed…
