Irving Howe and Inivisble Man :: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

invisible Man is a novel found on the journey and experiences of an unnamed Negro man during contemporary America. He is in search of success, companionship, and himself. Irving Howe says that, The beginning is a nightmare, because it begins with a nigrify unadventurous boy who is awarded a scholarship and sent to the South and invited to a dance palace with other black boys and they observe and are frightened by a woman dancing nude. The boys who are blindfolded create a difference royal or a raucous, but after the chaos the black boy give a thank you speech. Although the beginning of the novel is a bit frightening, the rest of however is pretty straight forward, it basically meet tells the life story of this unnamed hero (the Negro boy who is the Invisible Man). The hero goes to his southerly college, but is expelled, so is forced to leave for newborn York, where he works in a factory and becomes a ooze boxer. Next Howe comments on Ellisons style by calling him intellectua l but not a finished craftsman. Howe means that Ellison tries to overwhelm the reader, when rather he should be either persuading or telling the story. The novel is create verbally in first person singular and therefore Howe mentions that it is hard to set between the hero and himself (the matured I telling the story and the I who is the victim). The middle section of the novel concerns the Harlem Stalinists (Communists), to Howe it appears untrue, due to the fact that Ellison wrote with bitterness and make the Stalinists seem stupid, vicious and cynical. He was not surprised either by the Invisible Mans final discovery that after he quit the Communist Party, my world has become one of infinite possibilities, because he did not want to be rejected nor not seen by conglomerate social groups. I agree with Howe, that Ellison is a very gifted writer, with an astound style. I would have to disagree with Howe however, when he mentions that Ellison tries to overwhelm the reader and th at it gets misidentify because it is written in first person. Although Ralph Ellison, relies heavily on various type (visions and black and white), which move get confusing at times, but they can only help the novel and in no way lay it. Also, Ellisons style is also creative because it allows the novel to appear as if you were actually listen to a Negro telling the story, in the reason that Ellisons wrote in the local dialect of the time (with a Southern Negro accent).