itation of the worker which is a very communist idea. In order to almost live the experience of perhaps committing incest against his own daughter, Norton exploits Trueblood. In communist ideology, Norton would perhaps embody the evil, corrupt capitalist taking advantage of the working class.However, Norton is not the total capitalist that he perhaps embodies. After Ivan drops him off at his rooms on the campus, Norton defends the narrator against Dr. Bledsoe’s attacks. Dr. Bledsoe, however, has his own designs, and even though he may appear as a friend of the worker, Bledsoe is the true capitalist robber-baron.But I’ve made my place in it and I’ll have every Negro in the country hanging on tree limbs if it means staying where I am. (Ellison 141).Bledsoe states that he will not stop at anything to assert his own supremacy, even if it means stomping on his own race and setting back his people’s cause for ages. He believes himself to be the manifest of all authority and considers himself supreme over everyone. Even though Bledsoe appears at first to be a servile man, he is deep inside an insidious plotter and has designs on subverting the entire establishment for his own ends. He intends to exploit his society and the common people, which is something communism is against. At this point, the novel is making a very strong pro-communism vehicle of the horrors of Bledsoe and Norton.Also, because his veil is still in place, Ivan does not realize that Norton and Bledsoe are cut of the same fabric. After the Trueblood episode, his ideological progression not only continues, but it also manifests itself more apparently as the veil keeps being lifted. The Golden Day episode also strives to be a vehicle to ridicule the capitalist society and prop up the machinations of communism. After Norton is taken ill and needs some whiskey to revive himself, Ivan takes the old white man to the Golden Day. Here, America’s treatmen...
