Power and Sex in Chapter 19

Although throughout the book, women have been the ones with the lack of power, in Chapter Nineteen, even though this woman complains about women not having any opportunities because they are in the minority, she clearly has the power over the Invisible Man throughout the entire chapter. When she is able to lure the Invisible Man into her home, she makes him feel restricted. "And if I were really free,...I'd get the hell out of here." This shows that no matter the gender difference, race can still determine who has the power.

Sex was shown in Chapter Nineteen when the same white woman gets the Invisible Man to literally have sex with her. When she lures him to her house and their conversation ends them up in her bedroom. "...in one swift motion the red robe wept aside like a veil, and I went breathless at the petite and generously curved nude, framed delicate and firm in the glass." All night the woman has been teasing the Invisible Man and this was the last thing that happened right before the page break.