Setting:
The narrator is born and raised in the American South, but end up moving to the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, which is a major center of African-American culture. This setting allows the plot to become more realistic because in real time Harlem was a place where many riots and protests happened against racial discrimination, and in the book the setting taking place in Harlem really displays how it happened in reality. The reader can learn a lot from reading this book.
Characters:
Narrator: The Narrator is the main character in the story and he is a nameless man that doesn't really fit into any group of people. People are unsure of his identity, he is called names on top of names that people categorize him to be. He doesn't care what people label him or what they call him, he was in Harlem to find himself and figure out his own identity.
Dr. Bledsoe: He is the president of the college that the narrator attends, and he was an inspiration to the narrator until he found out that he was a fake. He looks up to the white folk and he feels that is a sham to commit to his own race, he would rather see a black man dead than lose his position of authority at the college.
Brother Jack: Jack was the main acquaintance from the Brotherhood. He was a little strange. Jack only sees blacks as a group and not as individuals.
Mary Rambo: Mary is a very kind and motherly loving woman, and she takes the narrator in and doesn't ask questions about rent. She cares for him as if he is her own.
Dr. Bledsoe: He is the president of the college that the narrator attends, and he was an inspiration to the narrator until he found out that he was a fake. He looks up to the white folk and he feels that is a sham to commit to his own race, he would rather see a black man dead than lose his position of authority at the college.
Brother Jack: Jack was the main acquaintance from the Brotherhood. He was a little strange. Jack only sees blacks as a group and not as individuals.
Mary Rambo: Mary is a very kind and motherly loving woman, and she takes the narrator in and doesn't ask questions about rent. She cares for him as if he is her own.
conflict:
The narrator seeks to act according to the values and expectations of his immediate social group, but he finds himself continuously unable to reconcile his socially imposed role as a black man with his inner concept of identity, or even to understand his inner identity.