The Invisible Man Awe and Amazement Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 It was inevitable that a person of so remarkable an appearance and bearing should form a frequent topic in such a village as Iping. (4.4) |
Even before he's revealed as the Invisible Man, the stranger is so strange that he's a source of amazement. Amazement can lead to curiosity and, in this case, gossip. This is an example of people being amazed by relatively regular things – that is, compared to an invisible man, a strange visitor is small potatoes.
| Quote #2 His irritability, though it might have been comprehensible to an urban brain-worker, was an amazing thing to these quiet Sussex villagers. (4.8) |
What amazes the Iping villagers might be pretty ordinary to most people. So far, amazement has to do with relatively normal things: weird hair, acts like city-folk, you know – the usual.
| Quote #3 "There wasn't anything there!" said Cuss, his voice running up into a shriek at the "there." (4.27) |
After Wells has spent some time showing us some amazement over relatively normal things, he hits us with this big shock: dude's invisible. Notice that Cuss's amazement starts to look a bit like hysteria at the end there, as he starts to shriek.
