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Chapter 23

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Symbolic Object: Dark Glasses

Quote: “They were of a green glass so dark that it appeared black, and I put them on immediately, plunging into blackness and moving outside.” (482)

 The glasses represent the Invisible Man becoming someone else through putting on a disguise, he became Rinehart; another man who lives in the city. TIM is involved in several cases of misidentification when he puts on the dark glasses. He makes himself invisible to Ras and the other people that know him.The glasses show TIM how to become invisible and the power that Rinehart holds over different groups of people by being able to transform into whatever character is acceptable for the situation. The glasses are also a veil in the fact that TIM can see the people but they can't see the real him.

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