Bledsoe is so furious with the narrator's indiscretion and stupidity that he expels him. After a disastrous encounter with a mentally altered war veteran, the narrator takes Mr. After the upsetting encounter with Trueblood, the white man is feeling weak and needs a drink, so the young man takes him to the closest place he can think of, the local black bar and brothel. He inadvertently reveals the seedier side of the black race by allowing the man to stop and speak with Joe Trueblood, a poor, black man ostracized from the black community because he got his own daughter pregnant. Norton, a wealthy white man who donates a great deal of money to the college. Unfortunately, the narrator makes a dreadful mistake when he is chauffeuring Mr. Bledsoe, the college's dean and a successful black man who is well respected in his community and his field. The narrator goes off to college and determines to model himself after Dr.
He and several black boys are forced to box each other and then scramble around a rug pulsing with electric current to grab coins while the white men laugh at their pain. He gives the speech and is rewarded with a briefcase and a scholarship to a black college, but only after he endures the humiliation of performing for the white men there.
The narrator's first real glimpse at the cruel manipulation of white people comes when he is invited to the local men's club to read the speech he prepared for his high school graduation. He is a young man from the South who is haunted by his grandfather's deathbed warning against conforming to the wishes of white people because the young man sees that as the way to be successful. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the story of a young black man whose name the reader never learns.
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