In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, women are generally viewed in a bad light. They are mainly used as sex objects, prostitutes, and also as caregivers. Women of both races are inferior throughout the book by the way they are presented as forms of entertainment for others enjoyment. There are rare occurrences of women in a positive light when in a different atmosphere. There are instants where he makes it out that woman want to be in the helpless inferior position. Ellison's portrayal of women in Invisible Man, is for the vast majority a negative one, they are mainly view in a degrading manner which shows how it was worse to be a woman in these times.

The use of a white woman is exploited by "important men" for their personal entertainment by using her as toy, which is dangled in front of young men. These young men are...