He eventually leaves Mary's home for good after a meeting at the Chthonian hotel helps cushion the loss of his job working for Mr. Kimbro at Liberty Paints, the only place that will take the protagonist after Dr. Bledsoe sends him away from his college for allowing Mr. Norton to meet Jim Trueblood.
This novel's protagonist buys three baked yams on the street after emptying a spittoon on a Baptist preacher's head, which results in him being banned from the Men's House for ninety-nine years and one day. He eventually leaves Mary's home for good after a meeting at the Chthonian hotel helps cushion the loss of his job working for Mr. Kimbro at Liberty Paints, the only place that will take the protagonist after Dr. Bledsoe sends him away from his college for allowing Mr. Norton to meet Jim Trueblood. His new job entails him delivering speeches against Ras, whose inciting of destruction forces the narrator to flee, whereupon he falls through a manhole. Enlarged from its author's short story "Battle Royal," it begins with the title character describing his life underground. FTP, name this novel by Ralph Ellison.
This novel's protagonist buys three baked yams on the street after emptying a spittoon on a Baptist preacher's head, which results in him being banned from the Men's House for ninety-nine years and one day.
{Invisible Man}