Personification Of The Invisible Man

“You see,” he (the nameless veteran) said turning to Mr. Norton,” he
(Invisible Man) has eyes and ears and a good distended African nose, but he fails to understand the simple facts of life. Understand. Understand? It’s worse than that…. Already he’s learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He’s invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!”
Mr. Norton stood abruptly. “Let us go, young man,” he said angrily.
“No, listen. He believes in you as he believes in the beat of his heart. He believes in that great false wisdom taught slaves and pragmatists alike, that white is right. I can tell you his destiny. He’ll do your bidding, and for that his blindness

And remember, the world is possibility if only you’ll discover it.”
The veteran’s advice is a mixture of Buddhist wisdom and Emersonian selfreliance:
1) do not look outside yourself for any answers; 2) and you already have all you need (invisibility) to save yourself. He also expounds on the grandfather’s meaning to “overcome ‘em with yeses” as playing the game for your own advantage without the game becoming your reality. Invisibility, then, is self-generated transformation: to become the creator of yourself, to be your own father. Though
Invisible Man’s prophetic mission may give birth to a new social vision eventually, he will become his own father, however reluctantly.
Invisible Man arrived in New York City with Bledsoe’s letters of recommendation, ostensibly asking some of the college’s trustees to give him a summer job to save enough to finish his last year of college. Invisible Man wondered, after delivering six of the seven letters, why none of the trustees had responded. With only one more letter and his despair increasing, he made an appointment to see Mr. Emerson, the final white board member. Emerson’s son, out of seeming compassion that Invisible Man later interpreted as deliberate