The Oddyssey by Homer

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is very similar to The Odyssey by Homer.Personal characters and national name is apparent in both books. The battle royal scene in Invisible Man and the Trojan War in The Odyssey are similar as they help determine the outcome of the protagonist, which in The Odyssey is Odysseus. The battle royal scene in Invisible Man introduces the enemy ("the white") which in The Odyssey is similar to Poseidon. After the battle royal, the protagonist in Invisible Man gets sent away by the whites to a college, just like how Odysseus is exiled to an island. The character Brother Jack in Invisible Man is a reference to the Cyclops in The Odyssey.The magnificent blond in Invisible Man, who the narrator describes as "a fair bird-girl girdled in veils calling to me from the angry surface of some gray and threatening sea" (Ellison) is reference to the Greek sirens that Odysseus encounters on his way home from Troy.

Reference

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3041271?seq=3

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