INVISIBLE MAN
Chapter summary
Prologue on invisibility
COLLEGE
1 Battle Royal
2 Norton hears Trueblood's story
3 Norton at "The Golden Day"
4 Norton and I. return; I. faces Bledsoe
5 Homer Barbee's sermon about The Founder
6 Bledsoe to I. on lying to white; kicks him out
NEW YORK CITY
7 bus-ride to NYC; last lesson from Mad Vet; Harlem
8 I. looks for a job
9 I. meets rapping man; meets Young Emerson
10 day at paint factory; Brockway; the Union; paint explosion
11 electric lobotomy
12 Mary Rambo takes I. in; evicted from Men's House
13 yams; the old couple evicted; I's speech; meets Jack
14 hired by Brotherhood; Jack & dances with Emma
15 says goodbye to Mary, moves to Brotherhood apt downtown
16 makes first Bro. speech (remembers lit. class lesson)
17 first rally, w/ Tod Clifton, meets Ras the Exhorter
18 good talk w/ Tarp, I. is denounced by Wrestrum
19 transfer downton to speak on Women Question; faces not the
"class struggle" but the "ass struggle"
20 Harlem again: watches Clifton shot by police; contemplates
his failure on subway
21 Tod Clifton's funeral march
22 Brotherhood policy change w/out I. knowing; he is denounced
23 I. realizes he can mistaken for Rinehart & plans to subvert
the Brotherhood
24 Jack's party; I. takes Sybil home; gets call to hurry to
Harlem
25 riot in Harlem; looting; I. driven underground
Irving Howe's review of Invisible Man.
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