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Essay / Homosexuality In The Invisible Man - 1163
Rather than hiding his sexuality, he decided to make it known, even until his death, he had been known as a homosexual man. Although his films involved heterosexual marriages, it is possible to find hidden homosexual themes in his films. “We can metaphorically read the invisible man of society as its homosexual man…” Each film he presented had raised a question of sexuality if the spectator had decided to analyze it closely. Being invisible for most of the film and hiding among others, not wanting to be discovered, his identity is also kept secret for half of the film, which may lead to Griffin wanting to stay out of the audience's sight for repressed reasoning . his sexual preference. He does not choose to stay by his fiancée's side when asked, he finds her beautiful but refuses to stay with her, he instead chooses to run away and cause even more chaos while out of sight. Only in his death does he become visible, revealing who he is and what happened to him.