and never realized his invisibility, but fate had other plans for him. His entire life was thrown into disarray the day that he was assigned around Mr. Norton, a powerful white man and founder of the school which he was attending. The narrator made the mistake of taking Mr. Norton through the old slave quarters, and at Norton's request, brought him down to converse with Jim Trueblood, a man who, in the midst of a dream, had raped and impregnated his own daughter. The conversation they had left Mr. Norton very shaken, and caused him to pass out. Afraid that Norton would die and wanting to do anything that would save him, the narrator brought him into a local brothel called the Golden Day to get him some whiskey. Mr. Norton ended up recovering fully, but when news of what had happened reached Dr. Bledsoe,
             the narrator was permanently expelled from under the pretext that he would be allowed to return after one year had elapsed. Deeply shaken by this turn of events but far from broken, and taking hope in returning to school after a year, the narrator heads to New York City armed with seven letters from Dr. Bledsoe addressed to some prominent white people which he believes will help him in attaining a j
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