Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Beginning of paper
The Liberty Paint Factory in provides
the setting for a very significant chain of events in the novel. In
addition, it provides many symbols which will influence a reader's
interpretation. Some of those symbols are associated with the structure
itself, with Mr. Kimbro, and with Mr. Lucius Brockw ....
Middle of paper
.... At this time he is a black man symbolically
immersed in a white world, a recurring idea of the novel.
After receiving his job, the narrator goes to meet Mr. Kimbro. In
this scene, Kimbro teaches the narrator how to make the ordinary white
paint into "Optic White": Ten drops of a black formula must be mixed in to
the white paint, of which the surface is already brown. The narrator does
not understand this, and inquires about it, only to be insulted by Mr.
Kimbro. Mr. Kimbro, in no wa ....
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