Characters
A black member of the Brotherhood who eventually sells Sambo dolls in the neighborhood.
Who is Tod Clifton?
The narrator got this from white community leaders in his town
What is a leather briefcase?
This character is shot and killed by a police officer
Who is Brother Clifton?
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass."
Who is The Narrator?
A motherly black woman who steps into the narrator's life after he leaves the hospital
Who is Mary Rambo?
Who is Dr.Bledsoe?
This is where the narrator first gets a job in NYC
What is Liberty Paints?
“That man is a paid stooge of the white enslaver! Where has he been for the last few months when our black babies and women have been suffering—”
Who is Ras the Exhorter?
A white woman who uses the narrator to act out a fantasy
Who is Sybil?
Where the narrator took Mr.Norton for a glass of whiskey.
What is The New Day?
The Brotherhood is disturbed that the IM has arranged this for Clifton
What is a funeral?
"The heroes are those who die. This was nothing—after it happened. A minor lesson in discipline. And do you know what discipline is, Brother Personal Responsibility? It's sacrifice, sacrifice, SACRIFICE!"
Who is Brother Jack?
One of the old, rich, benefactors of the narrators college who insisted on hearing Trueblood's story of incest
Who is Dr. Norton?
What is Dr.Bledose's assistant?
This "treatment" is used on the IM after his accident at the company where he worked.
What is electric shock therapy?
"Why should a man deliberately plunge outside of history and peddle an obscenity, my mind went on abstractedly. Why should he choose to disarm himself, give up his voice and leave the only organization offering him a chance to “define” himself?"
Who is Brother Tod Clifton?
The last potential employer to whom the narrator gives a letter. He reveals Dr. Bledsoe's cruel trick.
Who is Mr. Emerson?
The game the black boys played after beating each other up.
What is Get the Coin?
This is where Lucius Brockway thought the narrator had been when, in fact, he'd only gone to grab his lunch.
What is a union meeting?
"Sometimes I have such thoughts and dreams. I never give into them though, but I really think I am. A woman like me has to develop an iron discipline.”
Who is Sybil?