Chapter Three

While sex was not a huge motif in chapter three, it was indirectly mentioned in a few place. When the Invisible Man heads to the bar, Golden Day, there are many mentally ill veterans who are there for a form of treatment. While some part of their therapy is drinking, it appears prostitution is another way to help the vets "heal". The Invisible man just refers to the women on the top floor as "the girls" but he wants to do everything he can to keep Mr. Norton from seeing them. Although not obvious these girls are prostitutes at first, when we learn each girl has her own bedroom upstairs, it becomes pretty clear. At one point they even call out the unfair treatment, yelling at the vets to kill their boss (pimp) because he does not pay them.
When Mr. Norton is being tended to upstairs in a girls bed after passing out, one girl begins to show intrest in him. She says "he could put his hoes under my bed any night" alluding to the fact that she wants to sleep with him. Similarly to chapters one and two, women in chapter three are not given much of a role other than sexual objects, used to entertain, taunt and even "heal" men.