INVISIBLE MAN: CHAPTER 8

SUMMARY

• Before, the narrator was given letters of recommendation.
• Given letters to receive a job over the summer to earn his tuition.
• Delivered all but one of the letters, received no responses.
• After telephoning, he receives only polite refusals from the secretaries.
• He begins to question Bledsoe's motives.

IMAGERY

• Where ever the narrator goes he uses very thorough descriptions...
• ...to describe his current situation so that reader can...
• ...get a better idea of his surroundings.

QUOTE #1

• "It was a clean little room with a dark orange bedspread...
• The chair and dresser were maple and there was a...
• ...Gideon Bible lying on a small table."

TONE

• The narrator has a very skeptical tone.
• He has received no responses from the letters
• He begins to doubt Bledsoe's motives

QUOTE #2

• "Somehow I felt that Bledsoe and Norton were...
• ...behind it, and all day I was inhibited in both...
• ...speech and conduct, for fear that I might say...
• ...or do something scandalous."

ANAPHORA

• Narrator repetitively starts sentences with "I"
• Ex. "I would" "I was" "I thought" "I knew" "I had"
• Used to emphasize narrators thoughts
• Reminder that he is speaking about himself