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Instead, he worries that the vet may become violent and resents being forced to sit with him and Crenshaw in the Jim Crow section of the bus. Critical Commentaries: Chapters 7–9 45 At this point, the narrator has not yet recognized the power of words as weapons and draws no connection between the vet’s violent outburst at the Golden Day and his own violent outburst in Dr. Bledsoe’s office. Nor does he recall the violent impact of his grandfather’s dying words or the battle royal. Only when he discovers the contents of Dr.
24 CliffsNotes Ellison’s Invisible Man Numerous references to “stepping outside of time” and “interrupting the flow” of time as well as the description of history as moving “not like an arrow but a boomerang,” introduces another important insight regarding time and history: that, like the flight of a boomerang, history travels in a circular path and always returns to its origins. ” References to “bodiless heads . . in circus sideshows” and the funhouse where people find themselves “surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass” create a striking circus metaphor that Ellison carries throughout the novel.
He imagines what it would feel like to have five recordings of Louis Armstrong’s “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue” playing simultaneously. The narrator’s thoughts on music lead him to reminisce about a time he listened to music while smoking a reefer (marijuana joint), amazed at his ability to descend into “breaks” within the music, which normally seemed like one continuous flow. He compares his experience interrupting the flow of time to a prizefight in which the champion was beaten by a yokel (amateur) simply because the latter interrupted his opponent’s timing.