Thursday, January 30, 2014

Blindness 2


The Invisible Man decides to take a job at a paint plant in order to fund his plan of revenge on Dr. Bledsoe. As he is on his way to his first day of work he says, “I crossed a bridge in the fog to get there and came down in a stream of workers,” (chapter 10). The fog represents his figuratively clouded vision, which hinders him from seeing the strength of the prejudices at Liberty Paint, as well as in America. The Invisible Man believes that Dr. Bledsoe is at fault for his trouble in finding a job, when the reason for him not getting hired could very well be because of his skin color. He does not realize the prejudices between whites and blacks, because he believes that the prejudices are personally against him.

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