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Trueblood and the Statue in Ellisons unperceivable objet dart   Trueblood, in Invisible Man, is well developed, interesting character. He is the black gentlemans gentleman who sleeps with his wife and daughter and gets them both pregnant.   To start off, the name Trueblood itself is ironic. His blood is no longer true because it has been contaminated by a grave sin-he slept with his get kin Truebloods taradiddle of dreaming when having sex with his daughter is a number fantastic, and yet it is credible. Thus, his name could also mean he speaks the truth. Ellison might be using the name as a technique (besides empathy) to give Truebloods story credence.   Trueblood is ignorant and this blinds society of him. The initi whollyy pompous narrator describes him as too ignorant on page 48. This is furthered when Trueblood cant understand Mr. Norton. Mr. Norton said on the kindred page You feel no inner turmoil, no need to roll out the offending eye? he says Im all rig ht, suh. My eyes is all right too. Dr. Bledsoe didnt want Mr. Norton to see Trueblood-he is trying to keep the calculate of black society away from the downtrodden blacks. Thus, society is being kept hole-and-corner(a) from Trueblood and Trueblood is being kept hidden from society. But, this aloofness is not without merits. Truebloods remorse for his actions, and his feel that a man dont leave his family attest to his self-imposed morality. Morality organize without the benefit of a guiding society. This is just like the Invisible Man. He found his own morality after relinquishing societies guidelines.   Trueblood also raises the protrude of blindness to reality. He doesnt have sex with his daughter while richly conscious. Instead, he sleeps with her when he was dreaming. In this dream, he metaphorically describes his sexual fancy I runs and runs till I should be devolve but aint tired but feelin more rested as I runs... Only Im cool it in the tunnel. Then way up ahea d I sees a bright light up like a jack-o-lantern over a graveyard. It gits brighter and brighter...it burst like a great big electric light in my eyes (59). He doesnt realize he is having sex at all He was completely oblivious to reality. He is in a dream state, where nothing that is happening is real. This is just like most of the Invisible Mans life.