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003: 3), the novel, Invisible Man remained in the best-seller list for sixteen weeks and won the National Book Award for fiction in 1953. Some critics claim that it is one of the most important American novels that have been produced after World War II. Multi-themes, shifting and improvisation style and powerful expressions are regarded as the successful points of the novel. There is still one more merit that must be mentioned—narrative features in this novel. This chapter gives a brief introduction of Invisible Man, including its main plot and narrative features. 1.1 Main Plot and the Position of Invisible Man Invisible Man is a story told by an anonymous narrator, who claims that he is an “invisible man” at the very beginning of the prologue. Then, he explains that he is not literally invisible, but is the result of the refusal of others to see him though he has been trying to be visible again and again. Because of his invisibility, he has been hiding in a cave, where he calls his home and where he burns 1,369 lights bulbs simultaneously and listens to Louis Armstrong’s “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue” on a phonograph. Except a prologue and an epilogue, there are 25 chapters in this novel, which can be divided into three parts. The first part is from Chapter 1 to Chapter 6. The second part is from chapter 7 to Chapter 11. And the last part contains the last 14 chapters. In the first part, the narrator recalls his early life, including his grandfather’s last words, his attendance of a party and his speech. After that, the narrator’s college life begins. Everything in college seems good to him before his acceptance of a job, driving Mr. Norton, one of the college’s founders, around the campus. He takes him to Jim Trueblood’s log cabin, whose owner had sex relationship with his own daughter and even made her a baby. Then, In order to calm down Mr. Norton, the narrator takes him to the Golden Day, where serves black people and happens to be a brothel. Falling unconscious in a mess, Mr. Norton is carried to upstairs and examined by a vet who claims to be a doctor. The vet sees clearly about the true relationship between the narrator and Mr. Norton and he tells all of it to Mr. Norton and makes him irritated. After knowing what have happened in Jim Trueblood’ cabin and in the Golden Day, Dr.Bledsoe, the president of the college, is so angry that he decides to send the narrator to New York. Then the narrator goes to New York with seven letters of recommendation written by Dr. Bledsoe. He delivers all the letters except one which addressed to Mr. Emerson, but he receives no response after a week. As the last hope, he sends out the letter to Mr. Emerson. Instead of seeing Mr. Emerson, he meets Emerson’s son, who lets him read the letter. In this letter, Bledsoe has told each of the addressees that the narrator has been expelled from college forever. The narrator feels angry and hopeless. Fortunately, young Emerson offers him a job at the Liberty Paints, where the narrator has to mix paint and then to apply the paint to wooden boards. Then he is sent to assist an engineer, Lucius Brockway, in the furnace room. But for some misunderstandings, they begin to fight each other. Then the boilers hiss and explode. The narrator falls into unconscious. Wakening up in the factory’s hospital, the narrator is treated as a man who has lost his memory. Doctors use electric shocks, and even some of them suggest castration. After a few days, th