Chapter Five

The sex motif was only in Chapter Five for a couple lines. The Invisible Man is giving some type of speech, and in the speech he talks about Susie Gresham, the "guardian of the hot young women" (pg. 114). He says that Susie will "never be fooled with the mere content of words, not my words, not these pinfeathered flighters that stroke your lids till they flutter with ecstasy"(pg. 114). With this reference to sex, we see the continuation of the Invisible Man's association of forbidden with sex. Both Susie Gresham and the "hot young women" are presumably off limits; the women because they are guarded by Susie Gresham and Susie because she is a member of the faculty and "gray haired" (pg. 113) so it would not be socially acceptable. However, the Invisible Man still finds himself attracted to both of them.