Invisible Man Correspondence
As soon as I began to read this book, it struck me that it is written in a very unique style. The narrator employs an interesting storytelling style in which he is looking back and reflecting on how his perspective has changed while telling the story, and at one point he says, “Time was as I was, but neither that time nor that "I" are any more” (Ellison 30). In this thought, Ellison establishes that the narrator’s understanding of the world and even time itself has been shaped by his experiences, and this draws questions as to whether he can be a reliable narrator since his perspective is so concretely determined by what he knows of the world. I think that the narrator has seemed reliable thus far, but it is hard to say with no comparisons available to us. In this vein, it is clear even in these first few chapters that Ellison is establishing a very specific atmosphere when it comes to interracial interactions, and that can be seen especially when the narrator is preparin...