Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Sex and Power in Chapter 20

Power in chapter 20 appears on page 427, when the Invisible Man comments, "Everything seemed to be slipping away from me and I could find no quick absorbing action that would get it under control." Control is a synonym for power, and the Invisible Man has lost all of the power he once held with the Brotherhood in Harlem.

Sex appears on page 429, when the Invisible Man wonders why the Brotherhood was seemingly absent from their old headquarters in Harlem. He asks himself, "Or was it the woman?", a callback to the previous chapter in which he has sex with a married woman.

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