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ce of being seduced by a rich woman There is a white married woman in the fiction. She is also unnamed. The narrator meets her at his first lecture on Women Question. The woman invites him to her home for drink and discussion. Seductively, she moves him to her bedroom and is not known by her husband returning home later in the night. A rich white woman seduces a black young man, what fun it is! However, “In a sense, their statures in American society are similar because they are both forced into submission and oppression.”4 The woman is also invisible as her husband ignores her. Ellison made two characters meet in order to compare them and let them comfort each other. 2.1.6 Being mist aken as Rinehart After leaving from the Brotherhood, the narrator accidentally hears an argument about Clifton‘s death. Then gets involved in it and makes one group’s leader Ras angry, the group is about to catch him for punishment when he runs away. The group is still chasing him. In order to escape, the narrator thinks out an idea of disguising by wearing dark green glasses when he notices the men of Raps‘ group with dark green glasses. But wearing green glasses, he is recognized as Rinehart by a woman. Rinehart is a cynical member of Harlem community. After that, he puts on a large hat, he encounters more Rinehart greetings, and he walks past Ras’ group successfully. He continues to walk, and more who think he is Rinehart meets him. From that, he learns that he is also a number-runner, a gambler, a braider and a lady‘s man. By wearing a wide hat and a pair of dark green glasses, the narrator plays many roles. In fact, Rinehart is a symbolization of rind and heart, rind stand for the outside, heart for the inside. A man like that exists in the fiction, because Ellison sees through the faking of American politics and exposes that in a funny synecdoche of Rinehart. To sum up, these funny plots cover several aspects of society. The fiction centers on the injustices of the society, “exaggerating the absurd situation of a human by imagining. In some sense, it is a black humor.”5 2.2 Humor languages. Many passages of humorous language can be found in book. The words are simple but striking. Between the lines, we can read the author’s inner pain and comfort. 2.2.1 In the prologue “I am a invisible man. No, I am not a spook those who haunted Edgar. Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms, a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids---and I might even be said to posses a mind I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me, they see mysurroudings, themselves, or figments of their imaginations---indeed, everything and anything except me.” ( Ralph Ellison 1952: 3) In the first passage of the prologue, the narrator points out his invisibility directly from the beginning. Then he explains his invisibility in manners of humor. He uses devices of paralleling, metaphor and ironing. The narrator describes his invisibility vividly and with some indignation from his heart. “The point now is that I found a home—or a hole in the ground, as you will. Now don‘t jump to the conclusion that because I call my home a “hole” it is damp and cold like a grave; there are cold holes and warm holes. Mine is a warm one. And remember, a bear retires to his hole for t