Critique Of

“The Invisible Man” Essay, Research Paper

Critique of “The Invisible Man”

The goal of every person is to find their place in society. The journey

itself is a hard one, but sometimes unforeseen obstacles make this journey

nearly impossible. The book, The Invisible Man, takes us along the journey

with a man that has no name. You may think that it is odd not to give the main

character of a book a name, but if you think about it, what purpose does a name

serve. Isn’t is said that a man’s actions speak louder than his words. In this

story, the man’s actions go hand in hand with his words, to make him desired by

some, feared and hated by others.

The journey begins with the man fighting for his very education. Earning a

scholarship meant to physically destroy the competition. It showed that to get

an education he had to act the exact opposite of an educated man. He had to

rely upon his own primitive brutality to insure his education. He was then

mocked by having to recite a speech he was to memorize, which showed the total

disrespect the people who were giving the scholarship had for the future

students.

After getting into school, a simple job turned into an unforeseen disaster

that would change his life forever. He was to chauffeur Mr. Norton, a founder

of the college he attended. Mr. Norton was a well educated but very ignorant

man. He felt that the college was doing all of the good that could be done. He

had no idea of the evils that dwelled upon the grounds. Dr. Bledsoe, the head

of the college, had arranged for Mr. Norton to go for a tour of the grounds, but

didn’t expect for him to see .everything. at the college. Mr. Norton asked to

see some of the more unseen areas of the college, so the driver had to oblige

him. Their they met a man with an incestuous past. Mr. Norton was dumb founded,

he had no idea something like this could happen at his college. This just shows

the many evils we come across in our lives that appear like shadows, taking us

by total surprise. The phrase, .Out of sight, out of mind., seems to hold great

relevance. When you choose to ignore the bad things in life you become weak,

and when they finally do hit you, you may never recover from the blow.

The next destination they reach is the Golden Day, a hotel/brothel which

exists because no one bothers to do anything about it. It’s a symbol of what

happens when problems are not kept in check. Inside the Golden Day exist some

Sanitarium Patients who represent the many faces of society. What is normal.

These patients may have been average citizens one day, but the strains of

society have taken their toll upon them. The struggle to blend in with society

has caused them such stress that it has robbed them of their sanity. These

peoples’s journeys have had to many twists and turns which they could not

recover from.

After returning, Dr. Bledsoe was informed of what had happened. In a rage

he blamed the driver for everything. This shows society’s need to blame someone

or something. Nothing can be what it appears to be. Someone has to be blamed

for what happened. This marks the end of the beginning of the man with no

identity. Due to circumstances beyond his control he is about to have his

entire dreams unknowingly destroyed.

The man with no name is instructed to go to work for the summer to earn

money for the next semester, which he unknowingly will never see. He is given

letters to deliver to different businessmen in order to get a job. These

letters speak badly of him. Which he discovers when one of the secretaries

shows him the letter. He then gets a job at a factory where they make paint.

There he meets Mr. Brockway his boss, a modern day dictator. Brockway is king

of his domain, the basement, where the work that no one else wants to do is done.

Brockway believes he is a self-made genius due to the fact he helped build the

basement and knows where everything is. This shows how an ego can be dangerous.

Brockway is willing to kill to keep his position. Even though it may seem like

nothing to everyone else, to him, it is his life. It’s his only reason to exist,

and he doesn’t want anyone to take it from him. When an accident occurs he

blames it upon his assistant, who is severely hurt during the accident.

The man with no name awakes in some kind of hospital to find he has

undergone some kind of surgery. The surgery, I believe, represents the great

changes that everyone must go through in order to get accepted into society.

Even though they may be done against our will, or unknowingly to us.

He awakes to stumble out into the street to be discovered by Mary, a kind

hearted black women who offers him a place to stay. Mary represents those few

people who go out of their way in order to help those people less fortunate then

themselves. Mary is the one light in the darkness to help the lost t

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