In the Prologue, the Invisible Man expresses a very clear understanding of his role in society as an invisible man. Not only the first sentence, and therefore declaration, of the Prologue “I am an invisible man,” but it unfolds what exactly it means to be an invisible man and the character’s self awareness. This self awareness seems to be almost entirely reliant upon what the character is not or juxtaposition to other characters. For example, the Prologue he builds an understanding what is known more as a physical invisibility in order to form an understanding of his own invisibility “of a peculiar disposition of the [inner] eyes of those whom [he] come in contact with” (pg 3). This model of comparing what is known in order to build an understanding of what is not, like the character’s invisibility, is something found throughout the novel as the character at many times is framed a part from the world around him—a true man of invisibility. For example, when he is to present his speech in Chapter 1 to the group of white men, they make it very clear that he is still lower and lesser by making him partake in the battle royal prior to giving his speech, which one would think would be a moment of honor. Instead, to me as a reader, it came off as a bit bitter and not how a speaker would be honored. Then, in Chapter 3, the character is confronted with the vets at Golden Days, and he doesn’t seem to belong there either. At one point, Sylvester asks him to participate in the beating of Supercargo, and in a way it seemed as if the background character was asking the Invisible Man to participate in the action or plot of the world around him, yet he does not (pg 84). In this way, like when he gives the speech, he is very much separate from the world around him, and it would follow that if he is not to have a place within the world around him that the character seems to grasp he is not a part of, then what is he? An invisible man.