Notebook prompt: "I speak for you"?

NOTEBOOK (5 min): The famous opening line of Invisible Man begins with the word “I” (3), and the novel ends with the word “you” (581). The text we have just read represents the narrator’s act of writing from his “hole,” his effort to make sense of his “above-ground” experience by crafting it into a narrative, “writing it all down.” What “arc” do you see reflected in these opening and closing lines? Have we arrived at somewhere new by the end of this long narrative? How do we get from a gesture of radical alienation and individualism (“I am an invisible man”) to a potentially “universal” claim (“Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you”)?