Invisible Man

What is the purpose of the italicized paragraph beginning with "And why did I..." (Chapter 13) In Invisible Man

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The italics denote the importance of the narrator's thoughts, and what is, in fact, a discovery about himself. The vision of the evicted couple get through to the narrator in a way that almost nothing else has. In their presence he finds his own relation to the past; they parallel his own sense of estrangement, and they in a sense bring him home.

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