Chapter 2
By: Ari Sanjabi
Chapter Summary
In this chapter, TIM is driving Mr. Norton around the campus. During this drive, Mr. Norton, one of the trustees at the college, continues to discuss how TIM is part of his fate. This only confuses TIM, making him fear and feel more discomfort towards Mr. Norton. This escalates as TIM accidentally drives by the cabin of Jim Trueblood, a sharecropper who has brought "disgrace upon the black community." Mr. Norton insists upon hearing the entire story behind Jim’s incestuous act with his daughter. Shortly after this event, Mr. Norton enters a state of shock. Characters
TIM: Invisible Man (narrator)

Mr. Norton: one of the trustees

Jim Trueblood: a black man who had partaken in an incestuous act with his daughter Themes
TIM revisits memories of his grandfather

The white man’s naivete towards black culture (Mr. Norton’s shock at the Trueblood residence)

Fear of white power (TIM fears Mr. Norton) Quotations
"...I felt even as a young man that your people were somehow closely connected with my destiny." That what happened to you was connected with what would happen to me" (41).

"You bastard...you no-good bastard! You get a hundred-dollar bill!" (69): TIM cannot understand why people continue to support the despicable Truebloods.