Chapter 25

In Chapter Twenty Five, Invisible Man describes a mannequin. He says "the body hung, white, naked, and horribly feminine from a lamppost."(p. 556) Here, he is comparing the invisibility of white women to black men. Her nakedness shows her vulnerability in this quote. In this time period, someone hanging was most likely a lynching of black men. Women and African Americans have a similar vulnerability and they have the same power held over them, women often with sex, and blacks often with violence. IM says he "felt (himself) spin with horror" which shows how IM relates to the feminine mannequin, seemingly lynched, in the store (p. 556).