Invisible Man
... Yes … The dancing doll (430’ Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man). ... The novel, The Invisible Man, by Ellison, is a great example of how many secondary characters use IM like a doll. ... Clay, a black man, is cruelly taken advantage of by Lula, a white woman from the city. ... Initially, when reading the Dutchman, you would believe that this play is about blacks taking advantage of whites, but as you read through you will see that it is the black man who is the puppet of the white girl. She acts innocent initially but then she displays many of the same properties as the white characters in The Invisible Man. ... Although his speech did make a great impression on the drunken men, he was still lured into their grand plan because they believe they will get more use out of an educated black man than out of a black man who received no education. ... “‘Yes, you are my fate, young man’ (42, Ellison). ... They won’t allow a black man to seem more powerful than they are. ... He informs IM that although the white men have the power, it is the black man behind the scene that makes up the real mind of the operation. ... In the dramatization, “Dutchman”, this deceitfulness is seen just as clearly as it is seen in The Invisible Man.