What starts with pandemonium concludes with pandemonium in this story about spending a lifetime completely unnoticed by society. The Invisible Man by Ralph Waldo Ellison traces one African-American man’s constant struggle to be “seen” by his Caucasian peers. It describes the drawbacks and benefits of a life spent being ignored because of race. The story is told in a series of flashbacks by the narrator, who in the present resides in New York. It …showed first 75 words of 1794 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1794 total…outline. Ellison truly makes the narrator’s existence all the more harrowing by allowing the rest of the story’s characters to float in and out of the story. On the whole, Invisible Man is enough to make anyone who hasn’t lived this man’s life feel as though they were caught up in the same riots, running from the same group, and being forgotten by the same people as this eternally nameless man.