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Living in invisibility may be viewed as a sad life. How an invisible man goes on is difficult to understand though. He has no name and no true identity. He could live in chaos and be powerless to do anything about it. His whole existence is trivial and ineffective. He has nothing in theory. Before the narrator became invisible he had something. He had what he owned. His possessions reminded him of his past and helped him to eventually identify who he was.
Throughout his attempt at life, the invisible man acquired various items in this novel, one of which was a briefcase. He received it when he complied with the oppression of white men and accepted his social status as an inferior. It was to be a haven, a safe place, for the rest of the book in which he placed his beliefs, ideals, and later on wisdom he received from the many events that took place.
The briefcase carried things that the narrator wanted to hold on to. He placed things in it that he thought would make all the......

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