Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man starts off with a strong sentence which gives the reader an insight to the character's mind and self perspective: "I am an invisible man" (3). As a reader I understood that phrase as a metaphor, as the narrator confirms in the following lines. The reason of his invisibility is ironic in the sense that it is based on the color of his skin, which is a merely physical, superficial and visible characteristic.
His complex personality is revealed in the following pages as his emotions and thoughts enter a conflict as he attacks the white man in the street. The man, who had been fooled by the character's invisibility ignored him and bumped him during the night, without apologizing. The main character, feeling deeply offended, demanded his apologies. It results ironic how even if the character was trying to get respect and acknowledgement as a human being, despite his color, he took an erroneous path to try to do so. By surrending to his physical and violent impulses, his intentions were reduced to one of a mugger. Through this case, Ellison exemplifies the importance of choosing the correct how to achieve and transmit our what.
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