The Briefcase
The briefcase is a reoccurring object throughout the story that symbolized so much in itself. It was the one object that traveled with him through the entire story. The fact that the briefcase was first given to him by a white man relates to the rest of the book as a whole. At this point in the novel the briefcase symbolises the false hope that the main character will eventually come across. For example, when Bledstone gives the Invisible man the the letters that send him in the wild goose chase, it is the briefcase that he puts the letters in. He carried all of the little objects that he found in the process of finding his identity in the briefcase. The briefcase saved him from getting hurt in the up roar towards the end of the book, and it also is what caused him to have to go into the sewer hole, to escape from being robbed. The briefcase in that scene resembles the timeline of his life. Everything that he takes out of it presents a different argument of how the invisible man was ruled over by other people.
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I agree. The breifcase is used to contain all the things in his life and seems to be representative of himself. All of the things he holds in it were like a part of him at one time. In the end, the burning of these things signifies the real changes he has made in his life. The breifcase is often described as being as it was the day he got it. At these points in time, he too is still basically the same person because he is still being tricked by the whites.
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