Novel by Ralph Ellison “Invisible Man” first chapters comes from a black narrator who describes himself as the “invisible man”, he does so to open the door for a dialogue from a perspective of a person who has been made invisible by society he lives in. This is an example of double consciousness “looking at one’s self through the eyes of others” according to the reading of Du Bois “The Souls of Black Folk”. And because the narrator views himself through the eyes of others, he in a way looses his own true identity, he at times acts aggressive “I am not so overtly violent. I remember that I am invisible and walk softly”. Du Bois  mentioned the idea of “double consciousness”, which is demonstrated in the novel, the narrator understands the benefits of being “invisible” to others;  “when it occurred to me that the man had not seen me, actually; that he, as far as he knew, was in the midst of a walking nightmare!”, the narrator got seen because he committed an action (mugged) white man was programmed and that man was only seeing him because it’s all he knows about seeing in a black man “violence”, other than that the narrator was invisible to him in all aspects of his existence “When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me”. Nevertheless the narrator mentions that due to his invisibility he gets to live rent free (he seems to have an optimistic sense for life despite his undeserved struggles). The stat of the novel Invisible Man starts with an evident signs of double consciousness, and how the protagonist deals with it, I would assume as the novel progresses the protagonist finds himself and his place in this world despite how cruel it is to him due to his ethnicity.