Invisible Man

I wish I could make up a name for the narrator but afraid to do so because it may be against the literary ethics...? Well anyway, what really bugs me about the narrator is that his immaturity and lack of respect for others. What he wants is recognition and success in a worldly sense. He only tries to suck up to people and doesn't ever put blame on himself when it's actually his fault. With Mr. Norton, I thought it was so stupid for the narrator to take the high class, rich, and powerful white man to a slum part of town where the narrator knew the conditions Mr. Norton would encounter. Dr. Bledsoe had every right to be angry at him and to want the narrator to get out of the school. Because Dr. Bledsoe put in so much effort and time into raising the quality of the black community, the narrator's actions deserved a consequence like that. Also, I really dislike how the narrator disdains everyone who he thinks is not worthy, which he judges by looking at their education background. He thinks if a person did not get an education, he should be treated like trash. His point of view goes against everything the equality activists were trying to accomplish. The lack of maturity and respect on his part makes him undergo through hardship in his life. However, if we link this to the hero's journey, the expulsion from school is the call to adventure, him resisting the temptation of reading the letter is the refusal to call, and the people he meets in his journey are his mentors. I am only on chapter 12, so I do not really know what to make of the accident that happened in the paint factory or how to link that episode with the hero's journey. However, everything seems to be going wrong for the narrator, and I feel like the most important enlightenment or realization he will face will be that he realizes what a jerk he's been behaving towards everyone. His scope of the world is still so limited and has not been exposed to much things. However, due to the factory accident, I feel like his life will encounter some unavoidable calamity that will make him into the person we saw at the prologue. Although the pace of the book is very slow and there are many times where I feel like there are too many words and description, I really want to see how the pieces fit together to make this the world renowned literature. I hope we have a class discussion on this book soon because I only know what is going on externally through the events but cannot seem to pick up on the motifs, themes, or importance of imageries.