Pretending

After his conversation with Trueblood, Mr. Norton is in shock. He feels very weak once he gets in the car and asks his driver to get some whiskey. The nearest place is the Golden Day and there are lots of veterans visiting. The invisible man tries to get the drink and take it outside but it is denied by the owner of the bar. With no other option, Mr. Norton is brought into the bar.

Through out the entire "adventure" the driver is always thinking of white men. First of all, he is really scared of being responsible for the health of a white man, if Mr. Norton died, it would be the drivers fault. Always trieng to be like the white men, the driver takes whatever is given to him by them. Trying to impress them to be one of them.

So Mr. Norton´s condition gets worse before it gets better, although, once in the bar with a little of whiskey in his mouth, his body reacts and is no longer unconscious. As he begins to improve, there is a fight in the bar that makes him worse again. He ends up being pushed under the stairs and the driver tries to find him. Once it happens, the invisible man is scared and is screaming without even realizing it. A patient that used to be a doctor comes and helps him carry Mr. Norton to a room where he can be cured.

The doctor acts like a normal person, he talks to the driver and tells him what to do. He makes Mr. Norton better and they continue to talk. Everything is fine when suddenly the doctor starts to seem a little crazy. Telling Mr. Norton how the driver is "invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of [his] dreams, sir! The mechanical man!" The man starts to ask Mr. Norton questions about his interest in the school and laughs because of his answers, then he suddenly stops and starts talking about the drivers admiration towards the white, how they consider the white men to be gods. Finally allowing them to leave, they hurry out of the room.

The connection that appears to be in this part of the book, is that the crazy men try to seem normal, to be like normal men, just like the black race tries to be like the white race, always following whatever they order.