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Invisible Man III Anxious to get Mr. Norton request for whiskey drives to Golden Day a bar and brothel all in one. The Golden Day is on outskirts of the college separate by railroad track into different world. He arrives one the worst day were “shell shocked” veterans are allowed to get fresh air and girls come to visit. His path is blocked by the unattended vets one who think he is drum major gives him hard time. He tells him he driving General Pershing to by past the crowd of former vets now patients. Rushing into the bar Halley the bartender refuses to serve him a drink for outside. His fear of the bar being shut down from the school regardless his pleads of dying man needing a drink outside. Mr. Norton still fainted in backseat motionless …show more content…

Amongst the patients where doctors, lawyers, teachers, and civil service workers. Men who he one day inspired to be made him feel uncomfortable and uneasy where patients. He feels invisible to them despite being patients. Telling jokes only they understand “playing vast and complicated game with me and the rest of the school folk”. These were black men who folded despite their education and professional class are now social outcast. An ex-chemist warns narrator that he should leave because the patients are out of control. There are patients who are sane enough to warn the narrator to leave, he finds Mr. Norton passed out under the stairs. Norton is helped up to the balcony and room to lie down receives help from a vet who is former doctor. Bledsoe is invisible because he is not present he only mentioned once when worrying about Dr. Bledsoe as the vet tells his earlier life as a student and doctor. The narrator is afraid of the freedom his has talking to Mr. Norton similar to Trueblood. The narrator asks Mr. Norton if he would like to return back to the college campus. He insists on staying and hearing more about the ex-doctor’s life before he became a patient. Mr. Norton’s fascination with story time from blacks gets the narrator in trouble which was the

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