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Invisible Man: The Narrator In Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man, the main character goes through many situations trying to discover himself. The main character, the narrator, thinks that he is a very important person. He thinks that his ideas will put an end to all the racial stereotypes in the world. The narrator does not realize that he is virtually nonexistent to everyone. The narrator goes through three states of sociality: invisible, translucent, and visible. …

…ite people when he refuses to consent to sexual intercourse with a white woman. The narrator actually does find himself. In the prologue, he says "I myself, after existing some twenty years, did not become alive until after discovering my invisibility." This shows that he has found himself and that he knows his status with the whites. He sees that his purpose in life is to follow the orders of white people; to be invisible.