Chapter Fourteen

Although sex was not explicitly mentioned in this chapter, at the beginning of the chapter, the Invisible Man was pushed into a woman named Emma "press[ed] tensely against her perfumed softness, seeing her smile as though there was only she and I"(pg. 300). This section alluded to sex, as Emma is sexualized throughout the chapter, and even dances with the Invisible Man, reminding him of the "vet's prediction" (p. 315), which was an earlier allusion to sex. In this, we see the narrator's continued association of force with sex, as he tried to avoid Emma, but was pushed into her anyway. This contrasts to the main society's vision of sex and shows how the Invisible Man's perception is often different from society.