The Effect of the Grandfather's Dying Words in Invisible Man
In Invisible Man we see the narrator go through a variety of changes over the chapters, with the narrator starting with this idea that if he works hard and pleases enough people he will be a successful person. But as time goes on and he moves to New York, he begins to develop more ideas of rebellion, free thinking, and thinking past just pleasing the white man. Bledsoe's betrayal of the narrator is what ultimately sets this off, and he thinks completely different after the "Liberty Paints Incident", where he is almost rebirthed as a completely different man. However, this whole transformation can be related back to one quote which has shaped the narrator's entire life. The narrator explains that his grandfather's dying words were "Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstructi...