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Vision Motifs The visions of the Invisible Man and surrounding characters are displayed through eyes, impaired vision, veils blindfolds, and other symbols. Vision is an integral motif in Invisible Man. Eyes Eyes are referred to throughout Invisible Man. Many different kinds of eyes are used throughout the novel in describing IM’s experiences. The moon is referred to as “a white man’s bloodshot eye”(110). People are “always watching you . . . waiting for a wrong move”(165). “Studying me with his penetrating eyes; the others...looking out of eyes that were meant to reveal nothing and to stir profound uncertainty” (462). “The face of that clock . . . hid a pair of searching eyes”(165). “The man looked at me out of a bright third eye that glowed out of his forehead”(231). IM feels as though he is being watched in everything he does. These eyes symbolize how self-conscious he is about his appearance and actions. Invisibility “That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come into contact. A matter of construction of their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality”(3). “In those pre-invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T. Washington”(18). “I’d make them see invisibility felt if not seen, and they’d learn that it could be as polluting as a decaying body”(509). “Time ran fluid, invisible, sad”(532). “Well, I was and yet I was invisible, that was the fundamental contradiction. I was and yet I was unseen”(507). Visions of invisibility display the black community’s feelings of unimportance. Impaired Vision The vision of both IM and those around him is impaired in different ways to symbolize the unawareness of racism toward the black community. “But now I felt a sudden fit of blind terror. I was unused to darkness”(21). “I crossed a bridge in the fog...”(196). “There is no point in blinding yourself to the truth. Don’t blind yourself..