Critical Analysis Of Invisible Man

Critic Roland Barthes said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Literature is the question minus the answer is exactly accurate way to describe what literature. Literature is the question minus the answer is saying that literature doesn't come straight out and give you direct answers it is more complex use literary elements to give the answers so you have to work more on and think more complex than if you were reading a normal book. Ralph Ellison the author of Invisible Man uses his literary element which make you really have to concentrate on what you are reading and really think about what you think he is saying, the hard part about literature is that you can think it means one thing but then it can mean something totally different
While I was reading the book Invisible Man i caught on to something different as to what i thought the theme was. This is the hard part of literature is different people seeing things totally different from others. I saw the main theme as Ralph Ellison wanting people to realize that we make our lives the way they are, and sometime we jeopardize our own happiness by changing what we like or what we want to do to what other people want us to do or what they want us to like. I saw this concept pop up several time throughout the book and i started to think about it more and more,about how this theme still exist today. Throughout the book the idea of us changing ourselves to make others happy in the end takes our own happiness away was represented by him being black but I didn't see it as the whole racism black lives matter concept. When the invisible man was talking to Dr. Bledsoe after taking Mr.Norton to get his wiskey and then taking him to the Golden Day Dr.Bledsoe was yelling at him for doing what the white man told him to do,he was just doing what he thought was right but Dr. Bledsoe did not see it that way, “you shouldn't do what you think is right or what the white man asks you, “you should know that a white man just wants to hear a lie.”(139) The invisible man did what he thought was right and what he decides he wanted to do but Dr. Bledsoe didn't think that was what he should have done so the invisible man totally changed his argument to agreeing that he did the wrong thing. “You’re black and living in the south - did you forget how to lie?”(139) People throughout the book kept this idea embedded in the invisible man when Bledsoe said that it made him stop acting and thinking the way he wanted to he was doing thing he didn't like just to please