The most redundant answer to this predicament is someone's hometown. A hometown is a place where a person grew up, a community they have related to and absorbed. In the novel The Invisible Man, the narrator's hometown community is not the one that helps him find his identity. At the beginning of the novel the narrator recalls what the community in which he grew up provided him: “All my life I have been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone was trying to tell me what it was. I also accepted their answers, although they were often contradictory and even contradictory. I was naive,” (Ellison, 15). The community he grew up in was a white supremacist place. There was no identity he could glean from a place that wanted nothing from him. He had to ask, he had to listen and he had to search for himself. The point of a community that lends itself to its identity is that it doesn't need to be discovered, it should be