He also realizes that by doing this he has gone in every direction someone has pointed to do and neglected to recognize where he wanted to go. He is having many struggles with what his heart is saying and what his mind is speaking for him. He states that he tries to back to hibernation but the ills of society play into his mind. For this very reason, the norm of society is not so bad after all. He admits now that everyone in society at time or another was invisible but because of so much hurt exerted upon them, the people decided to look to that hurt ironically for protection. TIM realizes this when he meets up with Mr. Norton once again at a subway station. As TIM looks at Mr. Norton, he observes that Mr. Norton looks lost.

TIM now understands what happens to a person once he is lost in society. He now knows that when a person is lost, that person in reality has lost a part of himself.

Character Analysis
TIM: TIM has taken a new form. He has now come out of his hole and has experienced what society had to give him. He now only is part invisible. At this point in the novel, he is visible to people like Mr. Norton who has become invisible. This proves that in order to become visible, one who used to be visible has to becoome invisible before seeing invisibility.

Mr. Norton: TIM reencounters Mr. Norton while at the subway. Mr. Norton at this point symbolizes for TIM his visibility. Mr. Norton also symbolizes TIM's conformity with society.

Symbols and Motifs
Mr. Norton is an important symbol of TIM's invisibility. TIM has changed his outlook toward society and has decided to alter his invisibility. Mr. Norton recognizes this change because the Invisible Man is now visible to his eyes. Mr. Norton has now become invisible himself.

The mind is an important motif carried out through the Epilogue. The mind represents the struggle TIM has in trying to be himself yet his mind making him want to conform. The mind also serves as a theme of hunger. This hunger is the need to feel accepted by those in society.

Setting
The setting of the Epilogue takes place in TIM's mind. The reader observes and takes in the thoughts and struggles of TIM. It is here that the reader truly gets to know TIM. The reader also will be able to conclude that TIM is not so invisible after all. He is in fact a part of a whole invisible world full of a society who once were invisible themselves but conformed.

Quotations
"When one is invisible he finds such problems as good and evil, honesty and dishonesty, of such shifting shapes that he confuses one with the other, depending upon who happens to be looking through him at the time" (572). This quotation explains how being invisible cause a person to be hypocritical at times when a certain person is in front of the invisible one.

"Too often, in order to justify them, I had to take myself by the throat and choke myself until my eyes bulged out and my tongue hung out and wagged like the door of an empty house in a high wind" (573). This states that when a person tries to please someone else, he actually loses a part of himself.

"Now I know men are different and that all life is divided and that only in division is there true health" (576). This states that if there were not differences in the world, we as a society and human race would not exist.

"Since then I've sometimes been overcome with a passion to return into that 'heart of darkness' across the Mason-Dixon line, but then I remind myself that true darkness lies within my own mind, and the idea loses itself in the gloom" (579). This states that sometimes we as humans want to go back to our old ways but those old ways do not exist outside of us but within us.

"Who knows but that, on lower frequencies, I speak for you?" (581). This states that this novel was not just speaking about TIM but also the reader himself.