Trueblood has brought disgrace upon himself by impregnating his daughter, and he recounts the incident to Mr. Norton gets out to talk to a local sharecropper named Jim Trueblood. Norton demands that the narrator stop the car, and Mr. Norton into an unfamiliar area near the campus. The narrator has been given the honor of chauffeuring for one of the school’s trustees, a northern white man named Mr.

Later, the narrator is a student at the unnamed black college. The local leaders reward the narrator with a brief case and a scholarship to the state’s black college. Afterward, the narrator gives his speech while swallowing blood. Next, the boys are forced to grab for their payment on an electrified carpet. At the meeting, the narrator is asked to join a humiliating boxing match, a battle royal, with some other black students. The narrator is a talented young man, and is invited to give his high school graduation speech in front of a group of prominent white local leaders.

The narrator flashes back to his own youth, remembering his naïveté.

The narrator listens to jazz, and recounts a vision he had while he listened to Louis Armstrong, traveling back into the history of slavery. He goes on to say that he lives underground, siphoning electricity away from Monopolated Light & Power Company by lining his apartment with light bulbs. An unnamed narrator speaks, telling his reader that he is an “invisible man.” The narrator explains that he is invisible simply because others refuse to see him.

Novel the invisible man