Being Invisible | Ideas for Group Discussion
Many novels dealing with invisibility provide an elaborate scientific or pseudoscientific explanation for a character's invisibility. Others use some kind of supernatural rationale. Instead of either choice, Berger simply describes Fred Wagner's invisibility as the result of a gift or talent which he develops. It might be useful, however, to compare and contrast Berger's novel with science fiction novels such as H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man and fantasy novels such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
The novel also illustrates how different people appear to us when...
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