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Ralph Ellison’s shows the conflict or struggle of one man versus an entire society. The most important section of this novel is that in which the narrator joins “the Brotherhood”, an organization designed to improve the condition under which ....

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... punished for his defiance and attempt to assert his individuality. Imprisonment made him similar to the invisible man: he lost part of his identity, However, he regained it by escaping and making a name for himself in the Brotherhood. The chain becomes a symbol between the narrator and Brother Tarp because the chain also symbolizes the narrator's experience in college, where he was restricted to living up to Dr. Bledsoe's rules. He feels that he too escaped, in order to establish himself again .The narrator identifies with Brother Tarp because he too is trying to be an individual free of other people's control. He does not want to be seen ...