Because he is a gifted public speaker, he is invited to give a speech to a group of important white men in his town. As a young man, in the late 1920s or early 1930s, the narrator lived in the South. He says that he has gone underground in order to write the story of his life and invisibility. He burns 1,369 light bulbs simultaneously and listens to Louis Armstrong’s “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue” on a phonograph. He says that because of his invisibility, he has been hiding from the world, living underground and stealing electricity from the Monopolated Light & Power Company.
The narrator begins telling his story with the claim that he is an “invisible man.” His invisibility, he says, is not a physical condition-he is not literally invisible-but is rather the result of the refusal of others to see him.
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