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In the first day of class discussion we talked about the contradictions that would occur throughout the text. We examined the contradictions of the prologue such as both european and african influences in jazz, the hate and love of a slave woman for her master, and the contradictory descriptions of lightness and darkness (pg 6, 10,12,). In the third chapter we also see these contradictions when IM brings Mr. Norton to the Golden Day. In fact, in our chapter 3 discussion we talked about Freud and his idea of the contradictory ideas of the id and superego and the intermediary ego. If we see Supercargo as a manifestation of the concept of superego (society's influence over us, or behavior that we have learned: our inhibitions) then the second half of the chapter when Supercargo fights with the primal and chaotic veteran-patients can be seen as the conflict between superego and id. Therein lies many of the contradictions of the chapter. One of these is Supercargo who debases himself with a hooker and then savagely fights the patients,"Supercargo…was nowhere to be seen…for when he was upstairs they had no absolutely no inhibitions,"(76) While conversely the representatives of the concept of id are former doctors and educators who seem to have commanded very sophisticated intellects at some point in their lives, "They were supposed to be members of the professions toward which at various times I vaguely aspired myself… they were really patients" (74). The backdrop of chapter 3 also serves as a contradiction. Halley tries to present his bar as a respectable and controlled establishment for Mr. Nortons benefit, while Norton is himself recovering from a sexually exciting experience of hearing about Trueblood rape his daughter. The moral compromise of Norton contradicts his elevated status as white, while IM is ashamed of the golden day and his fellow african americans despite the fact that he has done nothing wrong the whole day with Mr. Norton. Invisible Man has been characterized thus far by the dualities of strange contradictions. Chapter 3 contains many both explicitly and implicitly.