Invisible Man
What is the rhetorical effect of the long italicized passage?
Chapter 5
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Chapter 5
The last sentence of the passage is trapped within parentheses, rhetorically asking if anyone could doubt the authority on this stage. We are asked immediately to doubt the freedom of reality implied within the preceding words. The narrator admits that he too has stridden this stage as a student leader, yet remarking that his words had always echoed back at him.
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