Irving Howe and Inivisble Man :: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Invisible Man is a new based on the journey and experiences of an unnamed blackness homophile during contemporary America. He is in search of success, companionship, and himself. Irving Howe says that, The begin is a nightmare, because it begins with a black timid boy who is awarded a scholarship and sent to the mho and invited to a ballroom with other black boys and they observe and are shake up by a woman dancing nude. The boys who are blindfolded get to a battle royal or a raucous, but after(prenominal) the chaos the black boy give a thank you speech. Although the beginning of the novel is a bit frightening, the rest of however is pretty straightforward forward, it basically just tells the life story of this unnamed hero (the Negro boy who is the Invisible Man). The hero goes to his Southern college, but is expelled, so is forced to leave for New York, where he works in a pulverisation and becomes a soap boxer. Next Howe comments on Ellisons style by calling him gifted but non a finished craftsman. Howe path that Ellison tries to overmaster the reader, when instead he should be either persuading or coitus the story. The novel is written in first person singular and whence Howe mentions that it is hard to distinguish between the hero and himself (the matured I verbalise the story and the I who is the victim). The middle section of the novel concerns the Harlem Stalinists (Communists), to Howe it appears untrue, due to the situation that Ellison wrote with bitterness and made the Stalinists seem stupid, vicious and cynical. He was not surprise either by the Invisible Mans final find that after he quit the Communist Party, my world has become nonpareil of infinite possibilities, because he did not want to be rejected nor not seen by various social groups. I agree with Howe, that Ellison is a genuinely gifted writer, with an amazing style. I would have to disagree with Howe however, when he mentions that Ellison tries to overwhelm the reade r and that it gets confusing because it is written in first person. Although Ralph Ellison, relies heavily on various symbol (visions and black and white), which can get confusing at fourth dimensions, but they can only help the novel and in no way destroy it. Also, Ellisons style is also creative because it allows the novel to appear as if you were actually listen to a Negro copulation the story, in the sense that Ellisons wrote in the local dialect of the time (with a Southern Negro accent).