The Influence Of Identity In Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison

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The theme in the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is to not allow others influence your identity based on your skin color. The narrator was influenced by many and the reader saw how blacks should be related in society. Basically he allowed everyone push him around and treat him like a pet because of his skin color. When he began to work at the paint company he had the job of mixing the white paint with 10 blacks drops in order to make it the white the company wanted: “ slowly, I measured the glistening black drops, seeing them settle upon the surface and become blacker still, spreading suddenly out to the edges”(Ellison ). Basically the whites need or rely on the blacks in order to succeed. Another point in the novel where the narrator