When it comes to invisibility, Wright uses Bigger to define his feelings of invisibility using his own words. In his eyes, he sees it as the ability to "act out" whenever he is free from the eyes of white people as long as he acts the way they think hes supposed to act. While this invisibility does not save Bigger from the clutches of the corrupt hand of "justice" in the form of a premeditated trial, it does give us a basic concept for invisibility. It isn't the typically thought of complete disappearance of an individual from view, but rather just a lack of awareness of the individual. I think that this may be due to the fact that any African-american person in this time period was not seen as an individual human, but rather just another negro, same as any others that happened to be walking the street. Because of this, it allows an individual to essentially blend into any surrounding using only a change of demeanor and dark skin.
While Invisible Man has not exactly presented us with the narrator's view on invisibility, it does give us insight into how one gains it. As the narrator goes back into the past to recount his life and how he ended up in an abandoned room, he goes back all the way to before he knew of his invisibility. This shows that invisibility isn't naturally occurring, but rather something acquired through some inner revolution, the same way that Bigger realizes his invisible status after committing accidental murder. That said, if it takes Bigger committing homicide to fully realize his invisibility, what has the narrator done to have embraced this newfound "power"?
