attention to Clifton’s death.In a side street children with warped tricycles were parading along the walk carrying one of the signs, BROTHER TOD CLIFTON, OUR HOPE SHOT DOWN. (Ellison 450).At Tod Clifton’s funeral, Ivan is at the height of his involvement with the communist party. However, this is short-lived and eventually, the other members begin to doubt his faith in the party even more.The other party members, most notably Brother Jack, chastise him for delivering such an inflammatory speech. Here, Ivan realizes that the Brotherhood has basically made him a slave by not letting him express his own thoughts.“That’s right, I was hired. Things have been so brotherly I had forgotten my place. But what if I wish to express an idea?” (Ellison 459).The narrator begins to see how he was tricked and deceived by everyone in his life. Perhaps this realization becomes the epiphany moment where Ivan begins to see through the veil and slightly around it.After the riot, Ivan is basically driven underground. The epiphany also manifests itself as he sees the fallacy of communism as manifested by itself. He realizes that the Brotherhood made him their slave but he didn’t know it due to the veil. As the veil is lifted he is no longer the slave. Even though the veil of the illusion of the Brotherhood has been lifted, a different one is in place as he believes that robbing the power company is a noble cause.The novel concludes with the evolution complete and the narrator reaches his own epiphany moment and after the book completes its own evolution. The veil placed by society over Ivan’s eyes still exists albeit in a different form. Invisible Man not only embodies elements of a novel railing against racism, but also represents a progression of political thought from pro-communism to anti-communism.Invisible Man represents the experience in the human condition of growing old not only with one’s self but with...
