Bledsoe reprimands the narrator, deciding to exile him to New York City.

The speech makes the narrator feel even guiltier for his mistake. In chapel, the narrator listens to a sermon preached by the Reverend Barbee, who praises the Founder of the black college. Bledsoe, the president of the black college. Norton returns to campus and speaks with Dr. Norton recover from his fainting spell, but insults Mr. The narrator meets a patient who is an ex-doctor. Norton into the bar, where pandemonium breaks loose. The narrator tries to carry out a drink but is eventually forced to bring Mr. When they arrive, the Golden Day is occupied by a group of mental patients. Norton will fall ill, takes him to the Golden Day, a black bar and whorehouse. Norton is both horrified and titillated, and tells the narrator that he needs a “stimulant” to recover himself. 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.

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