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Essay Archive - Invisible Man: Plot Summary
Invisible Man: Plot Summary
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man opens with a prologue describing the main
character in time after the begining of the body of the book. In the prologue,
Ellison tells of the main characters invisibility. It is not a physical
invisiblity, but rther he is not recognised, and therefore persieved, by the
world at large. This is coupled with the fact that he is constantly trying to
be someone else, other than himself, creates for his a complete loss of
identity, and he becomes a man without a soul.
The story begins with the main character being forced to partisipate in
an archaic and animalistic free-....
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