![]() Chapter 1 opens with the Invisible Man explain g that he is a member of a hard-working family that “stayed i ts place.” His grandfather advocated this philosophy on hi athbed by telling the Invisible Man’s father that he had “bee traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country.” H vised his son, “Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to over me ’em with yeses, undermine ’em with grins, agree ’em to deat d destruction, let ’em swoller you till they vomit or bust wid en.” It was shocking advice that becomes something of “a curse the Invisible Man, as he is never quite able to understand it Manin fact, it is speaking up tha was advised to keep Invisible quiet when, ables change. ![]() Apter 1 opens with the Invisible Man explaining that he is mber of a hard-working family that “stayed in its place.” Hi andfather advocated this philosophy on his deathbed b Ellison’s Life and Career lling the Invisible Man’s father that he had “been a traito l my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country.” He advised hi n, “Live with your head in the lion’s mouth.
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