Essay Archive - Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
The Liberty Paint Factory in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man provides
the setting for a very significant chain of events in the novel. In
addition, it provides many symbols which will influence a reader's
interpretation. Some of those symbols are associated with the structure
itself, with Mr. Kimbro, and with Mr. Lucius Brockway.
The first of many instances in these scenes that concern the invisible
man and the symbolic role of white and black in the novel is when the
narrator is sent to the paint factory by the young Mr. Emerson to try to
find a job. Mr. Emerson, however, on....
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