The Importance of the Negro Bank in Invisible Man Essay -- Ralph Elli

The early Americana coin bank which the narrator of unseeyn Man discovers one morning in his room at Marys accommodate is a reflection of the narrators state through away much of the novel. The offensively exaggerate Negro figure provokes an instant hatred in the narrator referable to the tolerance it suggests. However, the narrator becomes personally offended by the object because of the similarities it holds to himself. duration smashing the pipes with the bank, he yells out to his neighbors who are banging on the pipes, Get unloosen of your cottonpatch ways Act civilized (320). Thus he associates the hatred he feels for the bank figure with his neighbors who are acting no less civilized than he is. He is not aware of his own cottonpatch ways it appears. In describing the bank, the narrator states that it is the kind of bank that flips coins from its hand into a large grin mouth. In order to put money in the bank, one essential feed the smiling, hungry Negro. At a poin t in the narrators spirit where he has no money and has decided to join the Brotherhood out of a debt ...