Review Questions        
Ellison’s Invisible Man

1. Trace the narrator’s journey from visibility to invisibility.  Discuss each of the major disappointments which frame this journey.
2. What does Dr. Bledsoe’s treachery tell us about human nature?  Why does he behave in this way?
3. Things progress badly at Liberty Points.  Explain the narrator’s work with Kimbro and then Lucius Broadway.  What is the irony of Optic White Paint?  What is Broadway’s fear re the narrator and what happens to the narrator?
4. Why does the pseudo-lobotomy fail?
5. What does the Brotherhood teach the narrator?  While they are socialists or Communists, they fight with Ras the Destroyer.  What are the philosophical differences of each, and how does this become a crisis as seen through Clifton?