Keep Him Running

Life is really comfortable when you believe you have a heading. There is no calmer feeling than being sure that your life has a purpose and everything you do is somehow meant to help achieving that purpose. You feel self-assured and confident as you stride through life, knowing where the path is leading you. However, what happens when all of the sudden, you find that this path you were following has a dead end. You crash face first against a stone wall and you know it-s the end of the road. What do you do? How can it be possible that all your life, you had been headed towards that dead end?
This is precisely what happens to our poor narrator in The Invisible Man.  After suffering a major setback in his career, and being removed from his scholarship, he had gotten back to his feet and was looking for a way of getting back to college. Dr. Bledsoe, despite being extremely disappointed with his failure and therefore expelling him, had provided him with letters of recommendation to friends in the North, so he could get a job. The narrator took his chance and hurriedly set forth to getting a job. Everything had been working fine in his plan. He was decided to recover his pride and his place in the college, and nothing would get in his way. That is, of course, until he was a fronted with a terrible truth. Mr. Emerson's son, who was lucky enough to meet the narrator before delivering the letter to Mr. Emerson, revealed the letter's contents. After all he had worked for, all his efforts and dreams; it is sadly revealed that it had all been a scam. Dr. Bledsoe wasn't going to receive him back into the college. He had sent him away so that his "severance with the college [would] be executed as painlessly as possible" (191). It had all been a charade to keep him living on "vain hopes" (191), blissfully unaware of his fate.
As the narrator finishes reading the letter, he witnesses how his own world suddenly comes crashing down on him. Everything he had dreamed, everything he had fought for had been a lie. His role model, the immaculate Dr. Bledsoe, turned out to be his executor. It's like he had been living in a dream all this time, and he was suddenly awakened with a bucket of ice cold water thrown by a compassionate observer. Now he was a wake in the dark reality.
Consequently, the narrator's future is now torn to pieces. Now that he found his path was blocked, all he could do was turn back and move towards a new direction. His new direction, as he decides he would never be the same, would be killing Bledsoe. Perhaps this will be his new direction: a new plan that drives him forward, and gives his life meaning. The question is whether he can achieve it.