Ralph Ellisons main character in ìThe Invisible Manî embarks on a strange succession of plots and interacts with many strange characters. The characters he meets shape, and change him from being an earnest overachiever to a cynical recluse. One of the very first characters to change him was his grandfather. As a young boy his grandfather, on his deathbed, told him how to act being black men in a white mans world: I never told …showed first 75 words of 711 total…

…showed last 75 words of 711 total…relationships therein. Now I know men are different and that all life is divided [. . .] Hence again I have stayed in my hole, because up above theres an increasing passion to make men form a pattern. (Ellison 576) He realizes being anonymous is more affective in being an agent for social justice, because while living outside of this world one can be free from its constraints. Works Cited Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man. New York: Vintage Books, 1980.