“Invisibility is realizing that probability and history are against you, and chances are that you will not significantly impact the world and will dies and not remain in anyone’s memory.”

--Ian

“To be invisible is to be a chess piece in the game rather than the player moving the pieces.”

--Kate

“To be invisible is to be powerful and powerless at the same time…It’s a strange phenomenon when a person becomes invisible. Do they still exist or do they get rubbed out of the history books?”

--Paul

“...at the beginning of the novel, the narrator’s grandfather views invisibility as a way of survival.”

--Emma

“Being invisible is more than the lack of recognition; it is a social weapon.”

--Alex

“When the narrator burns all the items in his briefcase, these symbols of the stereotypes he has carried with him and that he has become, he takes the first step in ridding himself of the stereotypes, and recreating his identity. The burned items create light--which often symbolizes knowledge, realization, or even rebirth.”

--Natalie

“He feels, loves and hates, and he changes his reality. He matters, and only invisibility gives him the freedom to change his own reality enough to make him matter.”

--Nick

“Yet it appears that the narrator enjoys his invisibility. He lacks any responsibility to others and operates under his own set of rules. Yet like anything, the invisibility comes to an end or rather it serves a new purpose. The narrator finds that in his time of hibernation he has learned to dissolve some of the bitterness...even an invisible man must serve some kind of purpose.”

--Mackenzie

I’m haunted by the narrator’s final words:

“Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”

What “valuable” items in my briefcase are merely weighing my arm down?

Who is keeping me running?

Am I only hibernating right now, and how do I wake myself up?

What does it mean that an invisible man has to speak for me?

--Ms. Leclaire