The Real Ralph Ellison's Postmodernism

The Real Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison moved from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to New York in 1936. Ellison then met Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. Wright and Hughes were the two men that most inspired him to become a writer. Ralph Ellison was in the writing period known as the Postmodernism (1945- present). Postmodernism began in the late 20th century and talked about architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism. This style of writing is still going on today. Ralph Ellison, because of his race and the time period he was born in, gained great experience with segregation and the racially divided society. Which is what most of his writing is about, including the Invisible Man. Ellison wrote the Invisible Man in 1952.

Asim first states that Ellison, in the beginning, was a very nice and caring for all. After some personal experiences he became a “willful, calculating and more than a little arrogant.” I agree with this critic because after learning about Ellison and reading more of his work he is a very arrogant, outspoken, and unpleasant man. Ellison describes the character in the Invisible Man as “a tall blonde man, and as my face came close to his he looked insolently out of his blue eyes and cursed me.” (Ellison 2). This shows that he is being an arrogant writing, he is looking down on the guy and trying to put him down. Ellison also states in Invisible Man, “you acne with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with you fists,” (Ellison 1).Ellison is trying to get himself noticed by the world and wants people to attend to him. Ellison is a very stingy as well as agrougent man by saying, “I have been carrying on a fight with Monopolated Light & power for some time now. I use their service and pay them nothing at all they don't know it.” (Ellison 3). He is using people and not paying them or giving anything back to them for their