As we continue reading through the Invisible Man, we still don’t know the narrators name. We start off in Mr. Emerson’s office. The narrator has high hopes but as he is in Emerson’s office another man is attending the narrator. The narrator is shock that he is being asked if he can consider attending another college. At this point the narrator is angry and just wants to speak to Emerson. Once the narrator has knowledge that the man in the office is Emerson’s son, the narrator now understands that he isn’t wanted in the college. To Bledsoe, the narrator will never been enrolled at the college again. At this point Emerson’s son believes he is a horrible position because he now has to decline the narrator for wanting to work. With having a “recommendation” that clearly states the narrator will never be enrolled at college again, clearly shows the interviewer that the interviewee is not capable of doing anything for the company. Even with having such a tragic event happening to the narrator, he moves on but later does through an even more tragic event. At one point the narrator wakes up in the hospital not really knowing what is going on around him. The narrator is unable to provide his name and is constantly in and out of consciousness. The doctors are unsure of what is the best treatment for him. The doctors are in between giving him surgery while another doctor wants to use his machine which performs lobotomies without surgery. Considering that the invisible man is a black man that is completely unaware of what is going on around him, the doctors want to use this opportunity to perform anything on a patient not considering what the patient wants done. I wondered while reading this if the doctors were thinking of performing the treatment without the surgery because he is a black man and the doctors just wanted to perform a treatment under very little or no supervision. The narrator still having no memory of who he is yet the doctors usher him out without having him ask any questions of what is going to happen or what is going on with him. At this point the narrator is put into the world with no memory, and is feeling completely disconnected from his mind and his body. 

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