Lose Yourself

There are times in life when we don't fully understand who we are or are doubtful of       what we want in life. This could become a loss of identity since we become more concerned with how the world views us rather than ourselves. The protagonist of Invisible Man has this loss of identity or rather he chooses to lose himself to achieve what he wants.

In page 178, the protagonist pretends he is not southern. He feels insulted after the countermand offers him a very southern breakfast since he assumed just because, he would want it. He decries all this as the change he wants to be accepted in the college as a better man.

The protagonist says he "would be basically the same ... Yet so subtly changed as to intrigue those who had never been North" (pg 178). From this the reader can infer that the narrator wants to trick those around him thinking it is a good idea but in reality, he will basically be losing himself to appearances.