Character Sketch If Invisible Man has a happy ending, it is because the invisible man is able to recognize himself as invisible, yet at the same time, accept that he is an individual. Throughout Ralph Emerson’s novel, the narrator struggles with many false identities, one after another, because of his desire to be seen. He is unable to see a self, his self, but instead acts out the wishes of others. The Invisible Man’…showed first 75 words of 778 total…

…showed last 75 words of 778 total…or bust wide open." Yet the result led the invisible man to the conclusion that he must undergo hibernation in order to act. In the epilogue, where the end is in the beginning, the invisible man is aware of all his false identities and learns that he must accept them before his is able to emerge for action. He is no longer identified as a group, but as an individual. “I am the invisible man.”