The narrator of Invisible Man is a nameless young black man who moves in a 20th-century United States where reality is surreal and who can survive only through pretense. Because the people he encounters "see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination," he is effectively invisible.The main themes of "Invisible Man" are identity and race. The Narrator, who is a Black man, feels his invisibility as a person is connected to the way society refuses to see him because he is Black.