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ABSTRACT By being in one's own society, moving in flesh and blood on par with the so called, assuming high profiled communities, is a disgrace. It is a social and intellectual issue entangled with individuality and personal identity. Ellison began with invisible man to dispel the disillusionment of bourgeoisie concept of identity. He addressed many of the social and intellectual issues facing African Americans early in the 20thcentury, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism and refourmistic racial policies in a very free following delivery. Ellison always believed in his Invisible Man that his invisibility is not a physical condition- he is not literally invisible - but is rather than the result of the refusal of others to see him. The contention of Ellison is to ascertain the aspirations of Afro-Americans, irrespective of their clans, tooling under the yoke of humiliation and persecution having no identity living like invisible man and unknown citizen. The theme of invisibility, originally hinted at by the vet in Chapter 3(page 81)and introduced in the Prologue to the novel, is developed in this chapter, with the protagonist realizing that the leadership of the Brotherhood is not willing to recognize his identity as an individual. In this context, the protagonist writes: