Analytical1

Invisible Man gives great symbols and motifs throughout the novel, most representing the ignoble values of white men towards the African-American community. Specifically, in chapter 6, Dr. Herbert Bledsoe expels the narrator for showing the true realities among the blacks near the college to the founder of the college, then further ruining the college’s reputation by taking him to a brothel. The expelling of ‘invisible man’ is significant to the story due to the motif of white superiority.
Bledsoe explains that, “ I’s big and black and I say, ‘Yes suh,’ as loudly as any burrhead when it’s convenient, but I’m still the king down here…” and he continues telling the narrator that he would lynch any negro is that’s what it takes to keep his position.
This echoes the narrator’s grandfather’s words because Dr. Bledsoe is a servant to the whites, and he does his betraying part of, “Yeses and grins”.
When Bledsoe expelled the narrator, this was a bitter reality for him. This made him become conscious that he could, too, become a traitor as Bledsoe soon, at the rate he was at. Bledsoe was a looking-glass into the future for the narrator, which reflected the actuality of white dominance.