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The Invisible Man H G Wells
Griffin was an ordinary man but his greed

for power and domination made him a
superman without any super powers!
Contents

The Invisible Man by H G Wells is probably one of the best crime
fictions. It has science, imagination, messages, adventure, murders,
excitement and curiosity. In a line, this is the story of a scientist,
Griffin, who invented a powerfulchemical to change his own body
invisible. Hows that! He hoped he could be a super-hero and dreamed
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of ruling the world with power and terror but what really happened
to him was the opposite!
Content

1. Summary in Notes
2. Character Sketches in Notes
3. Chapter-wise Summary & Questions

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Summary in Notes
1. Griffin in London
1. University College
1. Studying medicine
2. Getting attracted to physics
2. Thinks of inventing a medicine that can:
1. Make himself invisible

2. Make him a super power
3. Make him terrorize the world
4. Discussing the idea with Kemp (a friend)
5. Kemp laughs at the idea
3. Chesilstowe
1. Griffin leaves the Medical College

2. Stays at the little town of Chesilstowe
3. Studies under Professor Oliver (Physics)
1. A thief of ideas
2. Griffin being very careful about his secrets
4. Earns a living by teaching

5. Once ready to make the medicine:
1. Griffin steals his fathers money

2. Father shoots himself
1. The money did not belong to him

2. A rich man had given it to his keeping
3. Griffin doesnt regret
4. AtPortland Street
1. Boards a house
1. Starts experiments
2. Medicine in making
3. Tries on wool
1. Test successful wool disappeared
4. Tries on a cat
1. Cat doesnt drink the medicine

2. Test not successful
5. Neighbours start suspecting Griffin

1. Suspects of vivisection
2. Complain to the landlord
3. Fight with the landlord
4. Landlord serves Griffin with an eviction
notice
6. Griffin consumes the medicine
1. Test slowly successful

2. Griffin becomes invisible
3. Sends his books and chemicals away
4. Landlord arrives
5. Griffin burns the house
6. Griffin removes all clothes and escapes
5. Griffin the Invisible man
1. Excitement of being an invisible man

2. Troubles of being an invisible man
1. Could not eat without being seen

2. Could not sleep
3. Could not escape the rain
4. Could not wear clothes
5. Had to cover fully
3. Decides to invent the reverse medicine
1. To make himself visible

2. To be able to be visible and invisible
3. Decides to go to a village
1. For quietness
2. For loneliness
2. Griffin in Iping
1. At Coach and Horses
1. Dislikes Mrs. Hall

2. Shouts at Teddy Henfrey
3. Gets bitten by Fearensides dog
4. Slams the door on Mr. Hall
5. Scares Dr. Cuss
6. Enters Mr. Buntings home and robs
7. Scares Mr. and Mrs. Hall
8. Get locked up in his room
9. Reveals his identity to the Iping people and escapes
2. Gets Thomas Marvel to assist him
1. Returns to Coach and Horses

2. Gets into his room
3. Strips Mr. Bunting and Dr. Cuss of their clothes
4. Returns with his books and money with Marvel
5. Rises against the people who tried to stopMarvel
6. One man army fights the mob
1. Griffin and Marvel in Burdock
Google Cloud Platform.
Character Sketches Notes

1. Griffin
1. Irrational
2. Sadist
3. Inhuman
4. Violent
5. Short Tempered
6. Supporter of a reign of terror
7. Genius yet mad scientist
8. Gold medallist in Chemistry
9. Intrigued by the theory of light
10. Apathetic No sympathy
11. Anti-social
12. Revengeful
13. Persistent
14. Short-sighted
15. Methodical
16. Albino
2. Kemp
1. Humanitarian
2. Scientist
3. Innocent
4. Brave
5. Socialist
6. Systematic
7. Rational
8. Far sighted
9. Inquisitive
3. Thomas Marvel Griffins assistant who ended up the ultimate

gainer
1. Tramp behaviour
2. Dishevelled and unshaven
3. Drunkard
4. Hallucinated/dreamy
5. Imaginative
6. Opportunist
7. Practical minded
8. Intelligent
9. Smart
4. Mrs. Hall Owner of Coach and Horses inn
1. Talkative
2. Greedy
3. Easily snubbed
4. Cunning/Shrewd
5. Easily scared
6. Dominating wife
7. Inquisitive
8. Gullible
5. Mr. Hall
1. Drunkard
2. Intruding behaviour
3. Gullible
4. A good for nothing fellow
5. Dominated by wife
6. Shrewd/cunning
6. Dr. Cuss The general practitioner in Iping village
1. Jealous of Griffins collection of chemicals

2. Inquisitive
3. Intruding
7. Teddy Henfrey The clock jobber
1. Intrigued by Griffins mysterious behaviour

2. Persistent nagging
3. Rumor monger
1 Gri n Arrives Iping

Iping is a little, peaceful town in England. In the heart of the town is
Coach and Horse, an inn/lodge where travelers stayed backand the
locals had drinks. It was a severe winter when Griffin came to this
inn. He was covered from head to toe. No doubt, his look was strange
so everyone began to look at him curiously. Why is he so covered,
everyone asked to one another. Did he meet with an accident? Is he
shy? Is he too dark to come to light? Is it his way of fighting the cold?
Why does he cover even his nose?He wore spectacles with sidelights,
which looked like goggles but why such a makeup?
It appeared to Mrs. Hall that the man was rich so she had no objection
in giving him a room to stay. The guest was an unexpected money for
her. Mrs. Hall got ready to serve her guest but the mans appearance
roused her suspicions.Hall assumes that this the man was through an
accident so she decided to make him happy by talking to him. She
tried to get him to talk about what had happened to him but he
doesnt want to talk about his accident with a gossipy
innkeeper.Instead, he asks her about getting his luggage from the
railroad station.
2Teddy Henfreys Impressions

In the second chapter, wemeet a new character Teddy Henfrey.
Teddy was a watch mender (a clock mechanic) in the little town of
Iping and he used to work for Mrs. Hall as well. This evening, Mrs.
Hall asked Teddy to repair the clock in the guests room. Teddy goes in
and notices the new guest (Griffin) and made an attempt to strike a
conversation with him. Griffin didnt like to talk to this little man of
little importance so he ignored his questions. When Teddy felt a little
hurt by the new guestsbehavior, he kept on asking more
questions.Griffin had to shout at him. On his way out, Teddy doesnt
forget to speak ill of the new guest.
3 A thousand and One Bottles
Today Griffins luggage arrived from the railway station. He had it

sent from his previous house. The size of the luggage was so big that
there was great crowd watching the arrival of the luggage in a cart.
There were too many bottles and crates to count. The onlookers didnt
get an idea what these bottles and crates contained so they stood
there, watching and discussing.
Griffin was so much excited on the arrival of his luggage that he came
out of his room but was bitten by the coachman Fearensides dog. The
bite tore Griffins trousers and many people noticed the hollowness in
the torn part of the trousers. Griffin ran back to his room to change
his torn trousers.
4 Dr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger

The guest goes out very rarely but at night. People who met him
unexpectedly noticed that he was a special kind of man and a few
unfortunate people saw him passing like a ghost. Children and adults
feared him and he became the only talk of the little town of Iping.
The general practitioner of Iping, Dr. Cuss, decided to meet this

strange man. He went to the inn, talked to Mrs. Hall and then knocked
the door and went in. The guest had not put on his gloves so he hid his
invisible hands in his pocket and waited for Dr. Cuss to leave him.
Inside, Dr. Cuss talked to the guest, asked a number of questions and
got very few answers. While interviewing the guest, a paper of
prescription happened to fall into the fire and the guest made a
careless attempt to get the prescription. Dr. Cuss noticed that the
guests sleeve had no arms inside them. When he made a note of that,
the guest grew angry and touched Dr. Cuss nose with his invisible
fingers. Having escaped from the invisible man, Dr. Cuss met the vicar
(the areas resident priest) and told him what he had experienced.
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5 Burglary at the Vicarage
The guest enters the vicars residence. It was early morning and the
best time to sleep and the worst time to wake up.The vicars wife,
Mrs. Bunting, wakes to the noises and footsteps. She doesnt arouse
her husband at first.
The guest enters Buntings bedroom. Evidently he was fully

naked!
He now moves to the adjoining room, the dressing room.
At that point, Mrs. Bunting arouses her husband.
The guest is moving away from the dressing room and walks to
the staircase.
Mr. Bunting is ready to get the intruder. However he puts his
wifes gown on and follows the footsteps from the staircase.
The guest walks down the stairs and reaches Mr. Buntings study.
Mr. Bunting hears sounds from his study.
Quite accidentally a violent sneezing escapes Griffin. Mrs. And
Mr. Bunting listen with a start. No doubt, there is a thief inside!
4 oclock. Mr. Bunting steps back to his bedroom and returns
with his poker stick to deal with the thief.
Mr. Bunting descends the staircase as noiselessly as possible.
Mrs. Bunting came out on the landing.
Everything is silent except the faint creaking of the stairs under
Mr. Buntings weight.
Mr. Buntings study. Griffin opens a drawer and searches for
papers. He curses loudly and strikes a match. The study is
flooded with yellow light.
The Hall. Mr. Bunting watches the study through the crack of the
door. He sees the desk and the open drawer and a candle
burning on the desk.
Bunting wonders about the robber who was at work. He stands
undecided.
Bunting walks downstairs.
The guest finds the place where the Buntings kept their money.
Two pounds ten in half sovereigns altogether.
Bunting acts at the thought of losing his savings. He grips the
poker firmly and rushes into the room and finds no thief in the
room!
They search every nook and corner of the study.
Behind the screen

Under the desk
Behind the window-curtains
Up the chimney
In the waste-paper basket
Inside the coal-scuttle.
Griffin leaves the study and moves to the passage and then to the
kitchen.
The Buntings enter the kitchen.

The guest opens the back door of the kitchen and moves out of
the kitchen.
The Buntings look at each other and wonder what really had
happened in their house.
6 The Furniture that Went Mad

It was the day of Whit Monday, a festival that Iping people had been
looking forward to.The Halls (Mr. and Mrs. Hall) woke up very early
that morning and noiselessly went down into their cellar
(underground store-room) to drink some beer. Remember the guest
is on his way back from the Buntings house after the robbery)
While entering the cellar, Mrs. Hall remembered that she had
forgotten to bring down a bottle of Sarsaparilla from their joint
room.
She therefore sent Mr. Hall to bring the Sarsaparilla bottle.
Reaching the landing, looking at the strangers room, Mr. Hall
noticed that the room was open.
Hall ignored that. He went into the joint room and returned with
the bottle of Sarsaparilla.
This time Mr. Hall noticed that the main door was on its latch
someone had removed the lock and left the door on the latch.
He recalled to his mind his holding the candle while his wife shot
the bolts.
Who opened the door? Answer was very clear the man! Yes,
has gone out!
Mr. Hall remembered what Teddy Henfrey had reported to him.
Mr. Hall went upstairs, reached the strangers door and rapped.
When no one opened the door, Mr. Hall entered and saw no one
inside.
Inside the room, he saw the strangers clothes the bandages
and his slouch hat.
Hearing his wife calling for him to come down, Mr. Hall went
down and informed her that the stranger had gone out.
Wishing to see the strangers room and a little bit of his secrets, Mrs.
Hall went to the strangers room. Hall followed her.Reaching the
front door, they heard the door open and shut. It was the strangers
return from his business.While getting very near to the guests room,
the two heard a sneeze and Mr. Hall thought it was his wife who
sneezed and she thought it was her husband who sneezed.
The stranger was now moving between Mrs. Hall and Mr. Hall
and he sniffed behind her ears. When she turned back thinking
it was Mr. Hall who sniffed, he was seen far away.
Like a detective, Mrs. Hall felt the strangers pillows and clothes
and found that they were not warm. Yes, the guest had left the
room an hour ago!
Remember that the guest was now watching the Halls, invisibly.
He had been out at the vicarage doing a wonderful robbery and
now just returned.
Seeing the Halls in his room, the invisible guest felt like playing a
little fun with them.
He gathered his bed clothes (imagine how it appeared to the
Halls!) and threw them down.
He then took his hat off the bed post, whirled it in style and
hurled it at Mrs. Hall.
The hat was followed by the sponge from washstand, the chair,
his coat and trousers.
Next he lifted the chair and took careful aim at Mrs. Hall.
Attacked from all sides, Mrs. Hall and her husband ran out of the
room.
The stranger locked the door from inside and continued playing
with the chair and the bed and then stopped altogether.
Hall fell in her husbands hands. She was given restoratives by
Mr. Hall and Millie (the servant) downstairs.
Feeling better, Mrs. Hall remarked that the stranger was a ghost.
She confessed that she should have known that earlier.
She asked Mr. Hall to lock the stranger in so he sent Millie to
bring Mr. Sandy Wadgers, the blacksmith. Mr. Wadgers also was
of the opinion that it was witchcraft.
Wadgers and a few others gathered and discussed the next course of
action.While they were still discussing, the stranger opened his door
and came down, all wrapped up.Everyone watching him, he waved
his fingers at the bottle of Sarsaparilla which the Halls had left
behind, then went back into his room and slammed the door again.
Wadgers and Mr. Hall followed the stranger and knocked on his
door.
The door opened. Mr. Hall began to talk to the stranger but
before he had said excuse, me the stranger shouted Go to
hell. Shut the door after you.
Hall did what the guest had asked him he shut the doors
behind him.
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7 The Unveiling of the Stranger

It was at 5.30am that the stranger went into his room and locked
himself in.
He remained there till midday, without food, and probably,
water.
Neither Mr. Hall nor Mrs. Hall dared to go near him.
He was now starving. He rang the bell for food but Mrs. Hall
ignored him.
In the meantime, people gathered around the inn brought a new
rumour regarding the burglary at the vicarage.
When circumstances and the strange nature of the burglary put
together, they said it was the stranger who had done the
burglary.
Hall and Wadgers went off to find Mr. Shuckleforth, the
magistrate for his advice.
While people waited outside, the stranger expressed his anger by
smashing his bottles, tearing things and shouting curses.
It was a fine Whit Monday and crowd in front of Coach and
Horses thickened.
At 1 pm the guest came out of his parlour and called for Mrs.
Hall. The lady, instead of breakfast, served him his unpaid bills
in a tray.
When the guest grew furious at this, she said that she could
serve him food only when her bills were paid.
The guest replied that he was expecting some money from
someone but Mrs. Hall reminded him that she didnt think he
was not really going to get any money.
The guest then changed his tone and began to talk like a
gentleman but Mrs. Hall was not pleased.
At this point the guest informed her that he had found some
money even without receiving his remittance (probably a
cheque!)
Hall said that he had probably stolen that cash from someone.
She made an indirect reference to the burglary at the vicarage.
Hall felt like having the better of the guest so she began
demanding a number of answers how the guest went out, how
he returned, what are his secrets?
As Mrs. Hall went on with her questions, the guest finally got
ready to give her all answers. All answers!
At first he pulled the cloth that covered his face.
The centre of his face became a black cavity and the people who
watched his empty face stood stunned.
The guest then removed his artificial nose the pink nose and
handed it over to Mrs. Hall.
Then it was the turn of his spectacles, hat, whiskers and
bandages.
People who watched expected some horrible scars under the
bandages but the man was entirely a hollow!
People jumped out and ran helter-skelter.
Hall almost fainted again, Millie came out of the kitchen,
screaming and saw the headless stranger.
While many people ran away, more than forty people gathered
to see the strange happenings the sweet stuff seller, coconut
shy proprietor and his assistant, the swing man, little boys and
girls, rustic dandies, smart wenches, smocked elders and
aproned gypsiesbegan running towards the inn.
Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was
complete confusion.
By this time Mr. Hall arrived with Mr. Bobby Jaffers, the village
constable, and then the wary Mr. Wadgers.
Jaffers declared that he had come to arrest the man and he
prepared to arrest the man.
Both Mr. Jaffers and Mr. Hall went into the guests room to arrest
him.
They found the stranger inside, headless, eating some bread.
Constable Jaffers, Mr. Hall and Wadgers made a final attempt to
catch the stranger.
Jaffers said that he had no objection regarding the mans
invisibility. He had come to arrest him in connection with
robbery.
When he saw that they would arrest him, the strangers said he
was willing to surrender. He requested the police officer not to
handcuff him.
Jaffers was such a low enforcing officer that he could not think
of arresting a robber without handcuffing.
The stranger removed the last of his clothing, shoes, everything,
and, before his pursuers knew what was happening, he slipped
away.
Hitting the three men with his invisible hands and kicking them
with his invisible legs, the stranger came out of the room.
Outside, a mob surrounded him though he was now fully
invisible.
The invisible man now had a great time with people who had
turned his enemies Mr. Hall, Huxter, Henfrey and many others.
Hitting them all and knocking several of them down, he
vanished.
8 Mr. Gibbons Strange Experience

In this very small chapter we meetMr. Gibbons, a naturalist
whohears Griffin passing by him. He was spending his day in the
open fields when Mr. Gibbons heard the sound of someone passing by
him. He looked up and around but saw no one. He heard the passing
man sneeze and cough and even cursing him but there was yet no one
to be seen.
Questions & Answers
1. What unusual incident happened with Mr. Gibbons?

Gibbons, a naturalist, was spending his day out in the open
fields. There was not a soul within a couple of miles of him. He
was almost dozing when he heard close to him the sound as of a
man was coughing, sneezing and then swearing savagely to
himself.Mr. Gibbons tried to spot the man but there was no one
to be seen. Yet the voice was quite apparent. The swearing voice
kept coming towards him and he concluded that it was some
lettered man.It came close to him and then started to die away
in the direction of Adderdean. Mr. Gibbons had never heard of
spirits venturing out in broad daylight but the incident left him
scared and he hurried down the village as fast as he could.
9 Mr. Thomas Marvel

Marvel had a big, flexible face, a nose of cylindrical bulge, a
liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling
eccentricity. He was a short man.
He wore a furry silk hat, and the frequent substitution of
twine/string and shoe-laces for buttons, apparent at critical
points of his costume, marked a man essentially bachelor.
In short, Mr. Marvel looked like a mad man. He did everything in
a leisurely manner.
His feet, save for socks of irregular open-work, were bare, his big
toes were broad, and pricked like the ears of a watchful dog. Mr.
Marvel was contemplating trying on a pair of boots.
They were the soundest boots he had come across for a long
time, but too large for him; whereas the ones he had were, in dry
weather, a very comfortable fit, but too thin-soled for damp.
Mr. Marvel hated spacious/largeshoes, but then he hated damp.
He had never properly thought out which he hated most, and it
was a pleasant day, and there was nothing better to do. So he put
the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf and looked at
them.
And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony,
it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly
ugly to see. He was not at all startled by a voice behind him.
Mr. Marvel was sitting with his feet in a ditch by the roadside
over the down towards Adderdean, about a mile and a half out
of Iping.
He was trying a new pair of shoes when he heard a voice. Taking
it very casually and carelessly, he continued his struggles with
the shoes.
Without turning to see who talked to him, Mr. Marvel told the
man about his troubles with shoes.
Marvel heard the man speaking ill of Iping and its people.
At this point Mr. Marvel turned to look for the man whom he
was talking to but could not find any. In fact he just wanted to
see if the mans shoes were better than his but Mr. Marvel could
find neither a man, nor his leg, nor his shoes.
Then Mr. Marvel wondered if he were drunk. Without wishing
to give further shocks to a man whom he wanted to use, Griffin
(Oh, you forgot his name was Griffin?) instructed him not to
panic.
Now Griffin had toproduce solid evidences for his existence.
Lifting a few flints/stones, he dropped one of them on Mr.
Marvels toe and the man instantly believed him.
Marvel thentouched Griffin for a more accurate test.
Griffin now informed Mr. Marvel he had chosen him to do works
for him and offered him rewards for helping him and threatened
to kill him in case he betrayed.
Thus the deal was made.Lets see what Mr. Marvel will do.
10 Mr. Marvel Visits Iping

Iping Experiences a new feeling after Griffins unveiling
It was still Whit Monday.

People in Iping discussed the invisible man from two opposing
sides Believers and Sceptics (non-believers).
While believers held (believed) that the invisible man was real,
the sceptics laughed at them.
They celebrated Whit Monday in a different way
Whit Monday was celebrated at Haysmans Meadow

Bunting (wife of the vicar whom the invisible man had robbed!)
and other ladies were preparing tea on Haysmans meadow.
Children ran races and played games (they had no Sunday-school
on behalf of Whit Monday)
There was a little shade of fear and uneasiness regarding the

incidents at Coach and Horses yet everyone tried to ignore it.
Mr. Marvels arrival
While all were under a suppressed, tentative jolly mood, a

stranger came straight to Coach and Horses. It was Mr. Marvel,
indeed!
A few men of Iping happened to notice that this man was talking
to himself.
Marvel went straight into the parlour that Griffin had previously
occupied but Hall informed him that it was a private room.
Now, Mr. Marvel went into the bar and had a drink and returned
to the parlour door. He found another way that led to the
parlour.
Huxter observed the oddity of Mr. Marvels behaviour so he kept
his eyes upon him.
When Huxter came to the parlour from the road, Mr. Marvel was
already in action. Carrying a bundle from the parlour, he was
coming out of the parlour.
Huxter followed Mr. Marvel, shouting at him to stop.
Following Mr. Marvel, Mr. Huxter got far off the inn where he
was stopped and hurled into the air by an invisible force.
11 In the Coach and Horses

This chapter describes the way Griffin got in his room.
He sees Mr. Bunting and Dr. Cuss messing with his books and
things.
He watched them and listened to them for a while and made
them know that he was in.
Scared, the two men are further informed that he was going to
take their clothes off as a punishment for tampering with his
things and for taking his clothes away.
Outside, Mr. Hall and Teddy stood guard.
After a while Griffin gave his books to Marvel.
12 Invisible Man loses his Temper

Griffin was in the parlour with Mr. Bunting the vicar and Mr.
Cuss.
Outside, Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvels suspicious
movements.
Hall and Mr. Teddy Henfrey were a dozen yards away, discussing
matters.
At this point they heard a violent thud against the door of the
parlour, a sharp cry, and thensilence.
Hall and Mr. Teddy approached the door and smelled some
unpleasant chemical odours from the parlour. They could also
hear a muffled conversation from inside.
Hall rapped the door and asked if the two men were alright.
No reply was given. On the contrary, whispers from the parlour
ceased.
After a while they heard a cry like, No! No, you dont! It was
followed by a sudden motion and the oversetting of a chair, a
brief struggle.
Hall repeated, Are you alright, Cuss, Bunting?
This time there was a reply. It was the vicar. Having said
everything was alright, the vicar requested Mr. Hall not to
interrupt.
Nothing was alright inside. Griffin was forcing Mr. Bunting to
shed his clothes.
Waiting outside, Mr. Hall and Teddy heard Mr. Cuss say,
Disgraceful. Probably Griffin had stripped both the men of
their clothes!!
At this point Mrs. Hall appeared and Mr. Hall signalled her to
silently come and listen to what was going on.
As usual, the lady scolded her husband for not doing any work.
While they were listening, they saw Huxter rushing out of his
shop and then running after Mr. Marvel, calling thief!
At the same time, there were sounds from the parlour windows
being closed. It was done by the two gentlemen inside, probably
naked!
People present inside the bar rushed out. They saw something
very remarkable about Mr. Huxter. (You remember Mr. Huxter
running after Mr. Marvel and then subsequently attacked by the
invisible Griffin?)
People ran for Mr. Huxters rescue and Mr. Marvel vanished by
the corner of the church wall.
First they thought that Mr. Marvel was invisible man himself
who suddenly became visible.
Several men set off at once along the lane in pursuit of Mr.
Marvel.
Now, Griffin had to save Mr. Marvel from the mob so he got
ready to stop anyone who came very close to Mr. Marvel.
At first it was Mr. Hall. He gave a loud shout of astonishment and
went flying headlong sideways, clutching one of the labourers
and bringing him to the ground.
A labourer who came round in a circle thought that Hall had
tumbled over of his own accord so he turned to resume the
pursuit for Mr. Marvel. Griffin tripped him by the ankle just as
Huxter had been.
Griffin then kicked another labourer sideways by a blow that
might have felled an ox.
Griffin then had to deal with so many other men who tried to
stop his messenger Mr. Marvel.
The first to appear was the proprietor of the cocoanut shy, a
burly man in a blue jersey. He was hit so hard that the man fell
headlong.
While this was going on outside, Mr. Cuss came out and shouted,
Hold him! Dont let him drop that parcel.
Cuss informed them that his trousers along with all Mr. Buntings
clothes, were taken by the invisible man.
When Mr. Cuss rushed to join the other people to get Mr. Marvel,
he was knocked down by the invisible man. When Mr. Cuss fell,
the invisible man crushed his fingers by running over them.
Besides, the invisible man served Mr. Cuss with a little more
torture a perfect blow on the back of his ears!
Cuss now ran into the parlour (where Mr. Naked Bunting was
hiding) and informed him that the invisible man was coming
back.
Bunting was now attempting to clothe himself in the hearth-rug
and a West Surrey Gazette. Mr. Cuss said that the invisible man
was fighting like a mad man.
Hearing the invisible man so near, Mr. Bunting made one of the
two decisions: stay or escape. He decided to escape through the
window, wearing the hearth rug. You should have seen this little
mans flight!
We know it was to keep obstacles out of Mr. Marvels way that
Griffin dealt with a number of men in Iping. Else, it was for fun.
Was it because he was strangely angry with everyone? All the
three reasons are likely.
13 Mr. Marvel Discusses his Resignation

It took much time for the people of Iping to recover from the
shock and panic that the invisible man had spread.
That evening, Mr. Marvel (followed by Griffin, invisibly) was
walking to Bramblehurst.
Marvel was by this time desperate, tired and broken.
He carried three books bound together by some sort of
ornamental elastic ligature, and a bundle wrapped in a blue
table-cloth. You should remember that Griffin was not to carry
anything lest passers-by should faint seeing books gliding in the
air.
Marvels rubicund face expressed consternation and fatigue; he

appeared to be in a spasmodic sort of hurry.
Griffin kept on talking to Mr. Marvel and at times, he pressed
Mr. Marvels shoulders very hard to make him obey him.
Evidently Griffin was not happy with the poor way Mr. Marvel
had assisted him at the Inn.
Marvel explained that it was not his fault that their plans slipped
and people gathered to get them.
Griffin blamed himself and Mr. Marvel for letting people know
that he was invisible. He said that the news would be in the
paper and that people would be on their guard and the police
would be looking for him everywhere.
In order to be free from Griffin, Mr. Marvel began to confess that
he was the worst accomplice (assistant) for an invisible man.
Guessing Mr. Marvel was trying to be free from a miserable task,
Griffin went on encouraging him to work for him.
None of what Mr. Marvel tried to get away from Griffin worked.
Besides, Griffin gave Mr. Marvel the final warning Stay with
me or else be killed by me.
14 At Port Stowe
The next morning, Mr. Marvel was sitting on a bench outside a
little inn (lodge) near Port Stowe.
He was more miserable and extremely helpless. Hismind was
full of worries.
At this time, an elderly mariner approached him with a
newspaper in hand.
The mariner came closer, greetedMr. Marvel with a few
pleasing words. Mr. Marvel returned the greetings in bad taste.
The marinerwas in good mood to talk. He kicked a start by
making some remarks about the books that Mr. Marvel had with
him.
Next he proceeded to talk about the talk of the town and the
leading news the Invisible Man who ran away from Iping.
The Mariner opened his newspaper and began to read about the
Invisible Man.Mr. Marvel tried to avoid any talk about the
Invisible Man or any other man.He justpretended to have no
idea about the Invisible Man. You know why? Mr. Marvel knew
that Griffin would be around and listening to him.
At this point, the mariner told him what the Invisible Man had
done in Iping.
Marvel saw that the conversation was going to be more precise.
He saw that the mariner was not going to abandon the subjectof
the Invisible Man.
The mariner went on reading the newspaper. He mentioned Mr.

Bunting and Mr. Cuss. There is a clergyman and a medical gent
witnesses, the mariner said.
Inspired by the newspaper stories and the mariners presence,
Mr. Marvel began to talk about the Invisible Man. He was about
to say that he knew the Invisible Man when Griffin pulled him
away from the mariner.
While going away, Mr. Marvel told the mariner that he had no
notion about the invisible man. The mariner didnt like this
double talk. He got angry with Mr. Marvel and abused him.
Marvel disappeared, with the Invisible Man on his side.
15 The Man who was running

The invisible man is in another town now. It is somewhere near
Burdock.
No one sees the invisible man but they see a little man running,
calling out, the invisible man!
Kemp is in his study overlooking the town of Burdock. Kemps
study is full of science stuff.
Watching this from his room, Dr. Kemp blamed all the people for
their insane beliefs and superstitions. Dr. Kemp was a scientific
man so he was not ready to believe the invisible man.
He watched people everywhere and heard them shout in great
terror.
So, looking out his window, Kemp sees a man with a shabby high
hat running down into town. Kemp thinks this might just be
another fool who is afraid of the Invisible Man. Kemp, of course,
is too scientific to believe in an Invisible Man.
But outside, the running man looks terrified. Everyone around
freaks out, and for good reason. The Invisible Man is chasing
after the running man.
Who is the little man the invisible man is chasing? Lets see that
in the next chapter.
16 In the Jolly Cricketers

In the town of Burdock, at a pub called The Jolly Cricketers, a
bunch of people are chatting.
Suddenly, Mr. Marvel bursts in to the pub, yelling for people to
save him from the Invisible Man.
The Invisible Man is definitely there, because someone is
breaking windows!
The bartender hides Mr. Marvel in a backroom and an American

with a gun gets ready to shoot the Invisible Man when he comes
in the front door.
The Invisible Man, suddenly sneaky, goes in through the back
door.
He begins to attack Mr. Marvel, but the other men in the pub
rescue him in time.
The manwith the gun fires it carefully and is sure he hit the
Invisible Man. He tells everyone to go and feel for his invisible
body.
17 Dr. Kemps visitor

Back at Kemps house, Kemp is busying himself with some works
of speculative philosophy.
Kemp gets interrupted by the shots and looks out to see a crowd
at the Jolly Cricketers.
Shortly after, hes interrupted again when someone rings his
doorbell but his housemaid tells him that there was no one at the
door.
On his way to bed, after a long day of speculative philosophy,
Kemp notices some blood on the floor and on the handle of his
bedroom door.
When he opens the bedroom door, he sees some floating, bloody
bandages, which makes him feel something unusual about all.
The Invisible Man calls Kemp by his name and tells him not to
panic.
So the Invisible Man wrestles Kemp down.
The IM tells Kemp that he knows him from school: hes really a
guy named Griffin.
He then proceeds to tell Dr. Kemp that he wasalmost an albino,
he was a little younger than Kemp, and he won a medal for
chemistry at University College.
Kemp calms down enough to give Griffin some whiskey, clothes,
and a cigar.
Griffin takes a glass of whiskey, which looks like its just
suspended in mid-air. Then he puts on clothes, which look like
theyre floating. And finally, he smokes a cigar, so the smoke
outlines his mouth and throat.
It was just a coincidence that Griffin broke into Kemps house to
recover, but now he needs Kemps help.
Griffin needs help because his partner stole his (stolen) money.
He tells Kemp that hes too tired to tell the full story now and he
needs to sleep. He also adds that he doesnt want people to
capture him, which wed say is an odd request for a guest. But
thats the kind of guy Griffin is: strange.
18 The Invisible Man sleeps

After Griffin makes sure the bedroom is secure and after Kemp
promises not to turn him in, Griffin goes to sleep.
Kemp cant sleep right now. For one thing, hes worried briefly
about his sanity (was that really an invisible Griffin?). For
another thing, Griffin took his bedroom.
Instead, Kemp spends some time reading the newspapers from
that day. The top news story is about a dangerous invisible man.
Kemp remembers all the way back to Chapter 16 and he wonders
why Griffin was chasing that tramp. That didnt look like
innocent fun.
Kemp worries that Griffin may become more unstable and
dangerous. He hesitates, but eventually decides to write a note to
Colonel Adye.
Then he hears Griffin wake up. As usual, Griffin starts his day off
by tossing some furniture around.
19 Certain rst principles

Actually, Griffin threw some stuff around because hes just kind
of an angry guy, as Kemp notes.
Kemp tells Griffin that he wants to help, but first, he needs to
know his story.
Griffin was a medical student at the same time as Kemp, but
Griffin switched to physics because he was interested in light.
He came up with a loose theory for how to make objects
invisible, but needed to figure out a method to actually do it.
Griffin left London (and University College) six years ago and
went to Chesilstowe, where he was a teacher and a student.
What he really wanted to do, though, was continue his research
into invisibility.
Still and this is his big problem his professor (Oliver) was a
scientific bounder, a journalist by instinct, a thief of ideashe
was always prying!
Griffin didnt want to publish his research because then
Professor Oliver would get a lot of credit for it.
One night, alone, Griffin figured out how to make a human
invisible.
Pretty soon he was thinking about making himself invisible,
since it would get him out of his life as a shabby, poverty-struck,
hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college.

After three years of teaching and research, he didnt have the
money he needed to complete his research. So he did the obvious
thing: he robbed his dad.
Unfortunately, the money he stole was not actually his dads, and
so his dad shot himself.
20 At the house in Great Portland Street

Back at Kemps house, Kemp offers his chair to Griffin, mostly to
get Griffin away from the window.
Griffin continues his story: After his dad died, he moved into a
cheap boarding-house in London to continue his research.
He did go to his dads funeral (which is awfully nice of him), but
he didnt really feel sorry for him.
In fact, except for his research, the whole world seemed distant
and unimportant to Griffin.
His research, Griffin adds, is all written down in a code in his
books, except for a few parts that he chose to remember himself.
At the boarding-house, Griffin continued his experiments.
He made some wool invisible and then he made a
neighbourhood cat invisible. That cat experiment took a few
tries, and the cat didnt seem to like it so much.
Unfortunately for Griffin, the cats noise attracted an old woman
who lived in the boarding-house and who had always suspected
Griffin of vivisecting animals.
Eventually, though, Griffin got annoyed by the cat and let it out.
Then, as usually happens when one gives away his only friend,
Griffin had a little breakdown.
He started to have nightmares and was no longer interested in
his work. But he took some strychnine (a drug) and felt
energized.
At one point, the old woman and the landlord came up to make
sure that Griffin wasnt experimenting on animals.
They got into a little bit of a fight, which ended with Griffin
pushing the landlord out of his room.
Realizing that this would lead to trouble, Griffin decided to
disappear.
He sent his books off by mail to some place where he could pick
them up.
Then he started the process of turning himself invisible, which
really hurt.
During the process, the landlord tried to give Griffin an eviction
notice, but Griffin already looked so strange that the landlord
kind of ran away.
At some point, Griffin became almost totally invisible, except an

attenuated pigment still remained behind the retina of his eyes.
The landlord and his stepsons tried to break in, which angered
Griffin so much that he planned to burn down the house.
But he couldnt find any match sticks.
When the landlord and company finally broke down the door,
they couldnt find Griffin.
Griffin destroyed his equipment, found some matches, and set
his room on fire tocover histrail.
Now that he was invisible, he started thinking about the wild
and wonderful things he could do as an Invisible Man.
21 In Oxford Street
Griffin continues his story:
While he was still pretty excited to be invisible, he realized that
invisibility had some drawbacks.
For one thing, he couldnt see his feet, which made walking
downstairs a little strange.
The fact that people couldnt see him had advantages and
disadvantages.
Advantage: he got to pretend that a mans bucket was crazy.
Disadvantage: a man running to catch the bucket jammed his
fingers into Griffins neck.
Also, Griffin was always cold and started to get the sniffles. Oh,
and a dog could totally find him.
Wandering around London, Griffin came across a Salvation
Army march, which drew a crowd.
Crowds are dangerous to Griffin, since he cant slip through
them people can feel him even if they dont see him.
He tried to get out of the way, but he had stepped in some mud
and left muddy footprints.
Some street boysstarted to follow him.
Then it started to snow and Griffin got tired of his adventure. Of
course, he couldnt go home since he had set his apartment on
fire.
Back in Kemps study, listening to this story, Kemp looks out the
window. Kemp asks Griffin to go on.
22 In the Emporium
Griffin continues his story.
With a January snowstorm blowing in to London, Griffin needed
to find a place to stay.
He couldnt get into a house, so he decided to do the next best

thing: go shopping.
Seriously, he went to a giant department store named Omniums.
Griffin waited until the place closed, then he started searching
around for things he could use.
He stole some food and clothes.
Over by toys, he saw some fake noses, which started him
thinking about wigs and other costume stuff that could help him
pretend to be normal.
He slept in the department store, living out every childs dream.
Unfortunately, it wasnt as fun as youd think: he had nightmares
about being forced into his fathers grave and buried because no
one could see him.
Griffin woke up when the workers came back the next morning,
and he almost got caught.
The workers chased him around the store (they could see him
because he was wearing clothes); but once again, Griffin took off
his clothes to become invisible.
Since he couldnt steal clothes, Griffin had to leave the store with
nothing the sort of sad experience we all can empathize with.
23 In Drury Lane
Griffin continues his story.
Griffin was getting more and more upset about the whole
invisible situation.
He made his way to a costume shop to find wigs, noses, and
other stuff, so that he might appear a grotesque but still a
credible figure
When Griffin found his way to a store, the very alert shop owner
almost caught him. The shop owner had a revolver, and he kept
locking doors behind him.
This made Griffin angry, which seems to be his only emotion. So
he knocked out the shop owner and tied him up.
Kemp interrupts Griffins story to tell him that he isnt following
the common conventions of humanity when he knocks people
out in their own homes. Griffin points out, though, that hes not a
common person.
Back to the story: Griffin went ahead and stole money and
clothes. At least now people will be able to see him.
Griffin stops his story for a minute in order to give Kemp a long
speech about how being invisible isnt so great.
For one thing, he cant eat in public because he cant reveal his
mouth. (This explains why he never ate in front of people at the
Coach and Horses in the earlier chapters.)
Kemp wants to keep him talking, so he asks what happened after

he got all dressed up.
Griffin continues his story:
He got his books and ordered the equipment he would need. All
he wanted was to figure out how to reverse the invisibility
treatment. Unfortunately, those gossipy people of Iping
interfered with this plan. He asks, Why couldnt they leave me
alone?
Now that everyone has gotten in his way especially Mr. Marvel
Griffin is even angrier than before and plans on killing people.
24 The plan that failed

Kemp sees some people coming up the hill to his house, so he
tries to keep Griffin talking.
Griffin says he had planned to go someplace warm, like South
America, where he wouldnt have to wear clothes (at least not
during spring break).
But since he met Kemp, hes changed his plans. Griffin now
realizes how little one person can do on his own.
Invisibility is especially useful for killing people, so Griffin plans
to establish a new Reign of Terror with Kemps help, of course.
First, though, he needs to get his books back from Mr. Marvel,
who is locked up at the jail for his own safety.
Suddenly, Griffin hears some people sneaking up in the house,
and he realizes that Kemp has betrayed him.
Sad and angry, Griffin takes off his clothes. (What? Is that not
what you do when youre sad and angry?)
Kemp tries to capture Griffin with the help of the three men,
including Colonel Adye, the police captain who got Kemps letter
in Chapter 18. (So it wasnt a love letter after all.)
Griffin pushes past them (with as much violence as he can) and
escapes.
25 The hunting forthe Invisible Man.

Kemp explains to Adye that they have to take measures against
Griffin because hes insane, a person of pure selfishness.
They have some advantages, though. For one thing, they know
that Griffin wants to get to Mr. Marvel and his stolen books.
Also, Griffin basically told Kemp his life story, so they have all
that information. Kemp knows that they can keep him unstable
by making sure he doesnt get a moment to eat or sleep. And of
course, he knows that they can use dogs against Griffin.
Kemp even suggests that they put powdered glass on the roads,
but Adye objects that Its unsportsmanlike. At least someones
worried about that.
Kemp counters that Griffin is inhuman, that [h]e has cut himself
off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head. Man, we
wish we could think of a joke to put here, but this is dark.
26 The Wicksteed murder

After Griffin runs out of Kemps house, he really goes missing for
a while. Where was he?
The narrator also has a brief moment of sympathy for Griffin.
After all, Griffin was betrayed by a friend.
Without any spark of pity, everyone else seems to be out hunting
him with guns and dogs. To make things worse, Kemp spreads
the news that people need to keep the Invisible Man from eating
or sleeping.
Unfortunately, that doesnt keep Griffin from killing an old man
named Wicksteed.
Although there were no witnesses, some men around there
heard a voice wailing and laughing, sobbing and groaning. The
narrator thinks that maybe Griffin was upset after killing
Wicksteed.
Griffin has trouble finding shelter. All the houses are locked and
everyone is on guard against him. Whats worse is that everyone
seems to know the secrets he told to Kemp. Some friend he was.
Sometime in that day, Griffin found the time to rest and eat, since
the next day he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and
malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the
world. One Invisible Man versus the world lets see who wins.
27 The siege of Kemps House

Griffin is now outrageous. He writes a letter to Dr. Kemp and
threatens to kill him that very day.
Kemp has his housekeeper lock up all the windows and gets his
revolver ready.
He writes a note for Adye, saying that Kemp will act as bait to
catch Griffin.
Adye shows up later, saying that Griffin grabbed the note from
Kemps servant. So now Griffin knows that Kemp wants to set a
trap.
Then Griffin does what he does best: he breaks some windows.
But theres no way for him to get into Kemps house because
theyve anticipated his arrival. This is the siege of Kemps house.

Adye borrows Kemps gun and tries to go for help, but Griffin
trips him up and grabs the gun.
At first, Adye refuses to help Griffin, but he changes his mind
when he realizes that life was very sweet.
The narrator switches point-of-view here, and goes from Adye to
Kemp, who is watching all this from an upstairs window.
Suddenly, he sees Adye attack Griffin and get shot. It sure looks
like Adye is dead, but were not sure.
Kemps housemaid is coming up the hill with two policemen. At
the same time, Griffin has found an axe and is using it to break
through the shutters over a window.
Luckily for Kemp, the police get there in time, and he gives them
some fireplace pokers to use as clubs.
Griffin knocks out one of the cops, but the other cop hurts Griffin
(by aiming near the axe).
Theres a snapping sound, so maybe his arm gets broken. Griffin
drops his weapons and runs away.
But when the cops look around, they find that Kemp and his
housemaid have also run away.
28 Epilogue
The narration shifts again after the tragic death of the Invisible
Man and takes up to an inn owned by a short, fat guy. It is none
other Mr. Marvel himself. He named the inn The Invisible
Man.
The authorities were unable to prove whose money Mr. Marvel
had. SO, he got to keep all of it. He also made a fortune by telling
his side of the story.
Marvel still kept the Three Books which Griffin had asked him to
keep.
If one asks him about the three books, he admits that they
existed but he hasnt got them.
He blames Dr. Kemp for spreading this rumor.
However, the three books are with him only. He had hid them in
a marsh and now they lie in his cupboard.
He takes a hard look at them daily in the hope of understanding
the coded language. But alas! He is unable to do so. Looking at
the books he wonders what secrets are written in them and what
will happen if one day he also becomes invisible.
Questions for Practice

1. Griffin was indeed a super intellectual but he was utterly foolish

to have overlooked the disadvantages of an invisible man.
Discuss. (6 marks)
When Griffin first thought of being invisible, he had dreamedof
ruling the world. He was of the strong conviction that invisibility
could make him a superman but what turned out was a total
disaster.
Advantages that Griffin had hoped: Disadvantages: Cannot eat
without being seen, Cannot leave face and hands uncovered
while the rest of the body is covered, Cannot cover the whole
body in hot summers. Cannot go invisible in winters. If invisible
by shedding all the clothes, he could catch terrible cold in
winters. If invisible, people could notice his outline in rain and
fog. Dogs can easily sniff Griffins smell when invisible. People
may run into him if he is not careful. Cannot sleep in parks or
other open places because people or animals can walk over him.
He can rob a bank but cannot carry the loot out.
2. Do you justify Dr. Kemps betraying Griffin? Give reasons. (6
marks)
Kemp was once Griffins friendat the University College, London
yet his act of betraying Griffin can be taken for right decision
making. Griffin was short tempered, insane. He was a
dangerous man. He could kill anyone without remorse or guilt.
He was responsible for his fathers death yet he didnt repent. He
had a plan to terrorize the world. He was already wanted for
murder and robbery. He had no soft feelings, compassion for
humanity. For long answers like this, use phrases like, besides,
apart from this, in addition to this, additionally, on the contrary,
etc.
3. Kemp is the ideal hero of the story, The Invisible Man. (6 marks)
Hints : Thought of humanity betrayed his friend for humanity
bold and brave not ambitious highly planned able to direct
the police department himself a doctor and scientist refused
Griffins offer to join him to terrorize the world highly moral
wise and judicious escapes death bravely agrees to be the bait
for a dangerous killer runs terrible risks
4. Write a detailed character sketch of Griffin the scientist, Griffin
the killer, Griffin the terror, Griffin the avenger and Griffin the
idealist. (6 marks)
Although Griffin gives us the hope of being the hero of the story,
he soon betrays our trust by assuming the role of the villain.
Hints evil Scientist cold blooded killer terror persistent
avenger ideology.
Steps
1
DO YOU THINK THAT DR. KEMP WAS REALLY A TRAITOR AS HE CHEATED
GRIFFIN AND LET OUT ALL HIS SECRETS? GIVE REASONS.
DONE Griffin and Dr. Kemp were old acquaintances and

both were scientists. However, Griffin wanted to
establish a reign of terror and Dr. Kemp thought about
the social conditions of the future.
Griffin was an eccentric scientist. He wanted to strike
everyone who came in his way. On the other hand, Dr.
Kemp thought of the welfare of the society. Even
before Griffin had mentioned his sinister plans, Dr.
Kemp had decided to turn him over to the police. After
hearing his plans and realizing the threat that Griffin
posed to society, he was determined to capture him.
Therefore, it is not right to call Dr. Kemp a traitor.
Though he had cheated Griffin, he was thinking about
the good of the society. He wanted to save the society
from the devil that was Griffin.
2
GRIFFIN WAS INVISIBLE WITH GODLY POWERS YET HE CRIED WITH
HELPLESSNESS. WHY DID GRIFFIN GROW SO MUCH HOPELESS?
DONE Griffin was having a hard time adjusting with his

newly acquired power. Even his walk was clumsy. He
was filled with great joy in his mind was busy in the
things he could do without being seen. Suddenly, he
was hit from behind. The man carrying basket was
greatly surprised and this made Griffin laugh. A
cabman rushed to catch the basket and his hands met
Griffins neck. Griffin was hurt and the crowd rushed
to the scene. Griffin was in the danger of being
discovered. So, he ran away from the place. On the
street, his feet got stamped, his shoulder got bruised
and most of all he was stark naked and thus caught a
cold. Griffins initial happiness had flown and he
thought how he was going to get out of the mess he
was in. He was feeling so helpless that he nearly cried.
3
WRITE A CHARACTER SKETCH OF DR. KEMP.
Griffin and Dr. Kemp were old acquaintances and

DONE both were scientists. However, Griffin wanted to
establish a reign of terror and Dr. Kemp thought about
the social conditions of the future. Griffin was an
eccentric scientist. He wanted to strike everyone who
came in his way. On the other hand, Dr. Kemp thought
of the welfare of the society. Even before Griffin had
mentioned his sinister plans, Dr. Kemp had decided to
turn him over to the police. After hearing his plans
and realizing the threat that Griffin posed to society,
he was determined to capture him. Therefore, it is not
right to call Dr. Kemp a traitor. Though he had cheated
Griffin, he was thinking about the good of the society.
He wanted to save the society from the devil that was
Griffin. Since the beginning, when the two were
medical students at the University College, London,
Dr. Kemp hadnt shown any remarkable interest in
Griffins theories. Either he didnt like the idea of
invisibility or he didnt believe it could be true. Dr.
Kemps researches have not culminated in great
inventions but he deserves all credits for averting a
great disaster that the world would have suffered. It
was like diffusing a ready-explosive that Dr. Kemp got
Griffin killed. This way, Dr. Kemp reminds us that a
true scientific invention should do the humanity good.
4
DESCRIBE THE ROBBERY EPISODE AT THE VICARAGE.
It was four in the early morning. Mr. Bunting the vicar

DONE of Iping and his wife were fast asleep. Suddenly Mrs.
Bunting woke to the sound of their bedroom door
open and close.Mrs. Bunting knew someone was
inside their room so she roused her husband. The duo
remained alert and looked for anyone in the room.
They distinctly heard a fumbling/searching going on
in his study desk downstairs. They also heard a violent
sneeze of a man. Armed with his poker, Mr. Bunting
descended the staircase as noiselessly as he could. It
was so dark inside the room yet Mr. Bunting watched
patiently. He then heard the sound of the drawer open
and a match being struck. The room was instantly
flooded with yellow light of a candle. The most
surprising thing was that Mr. Bunting was not able to
see the robber in the room. Then the two of them
heard coins being poured into a bag. Realizing that the
robber was taking all their housekeeping reserve of
gold, Mr. Bunting felt miserable and furious. He could
not accept the fact that his gold was being robbed by
an invisible robber or by a ghost. When the two saw
that the robber had left the study, they came out
andheard the sound of the kitchen door slam.
5
WHAT WERE TEDDY HENFREY'S IMPRESSIONS ABOUT THE GUEST?
From the very beginning, Teddy was suspicious of the

DONE guest. Being of a curious nature, Teddy delayed his
works to breakinto a conversation with the silent
guest. The stranger stood where he had stood and it
was so still that it got on Henfreys nerves. He felt
alone in the room and looked up, and there, grey and
dim, was the bandaged head and huge blue lenses
staring fixedly, with a mist of green spots drifting in
front of them. It was so uncanny to Henfrey that for a
minute they remained staring blankly at one another.
Then Henfrey looked down again. For him it was an
uncomfortable position. The stranger annoyed Mr.
Henfrey that much which the latter could not take. On
returning from the inn after repairing the clock in the
strangers room, Henfrey uttered curses and wished if
the police interrogated the stranger and removed his
bandages. He was feeling immeasurably revengeful
with the stranger that he gave such a report of him to
Mr. Hall that the latter made his repent for his rude
behaviour with Henfrey. Mr. Henfrey, out of rage,
gave a much more grotesque description of the
stranger so that Mr. Hall could be equally determined
to throw him out at the earliest. He blamed Mrs. Hall
for admitting the stranger without proper
identification and reminded him that it was a mess
that they could not get him out before a week had
passed. In addition to this, Mr. Henfrey told Mr. Hall
how his aunt at Hastings had been swindled by a
stranger with empty suitcases. Altogether he left Hall
vaguely suspicious.
6
WHAT LED TO GRIFFIN'S VIOLENT ATTACK ON MR. HALL?
Seeing how savagely his guest had been bitten by

DONE Fearenside's dog, Mr. Hall thought it his duty to offer
him a little help. Being a naturally sympathetic
character, Mr.Hallwent straight upstairs. Griffin's
door not shut, hepushed it open and enteredwithout
knocking.The blind was down and the room was
therefore dim. Unfortunately for Mr. Hall, Griffin was
changing his torn clothesso he was almost without
any clothes. He had removed his head-makeup so his
face, with the three hollows left by his eyes and
mouth, looked like a ghost. Griffin had removed his
gloves for changing his trousers therefore Mr. Hall
saw a hand-less arm waving towards him. Griffin saw
Mr. Hall's pale face and was instantly angry with his
intruding nature. Out of growing rage, Griffin struck
Mr. Hall violently in the chest and hurled him out of
the room. The door was instantly shut from within. All
this happened in secondsthat it gave him no time to
observe. There he stood on the dark littlelanding,
wondering what it might be that he had seen.
7
DR. CUSS - CHARACTER SKETCH.
Cuss was the general practitioner (doctor) inIping. He

DONE was a curious manby nature. By this time
therewereseveralstories being told aboutthe
stranger who stayed at Coach and Horses so he was
naturally curious about this man's errands/works. As
Mrs. Hall told everybody that he was an experimental
investigator, Dr. Cuss was forced by a
strangecuriosity to know more about the
experimental investigator, howeverstranger he was
for him. The bandaged appearance excited his
professional interest in the story of the stranger.
Moreover, he was jealous when he heard about the
news of the strange man possessing thousand and one
bottles of medicines and chemicals. It was therefore
expected on his part that Dr. Cussdesired an
opportunity to have a talk with the stranger. When he
could not hold on any longer, he used the excuse of a
subscription list and gained permission to interview
the guest at the inn.
Dr. Cuss' jealousy for another scientist in Iping is

further evident when he readily joins Mr. Bunting and
others to prove Griffin's criminal motives and the
hidden nature of his profession. He risks his life to
find out more about Griffin by entering his room to
inspect his secrets.
Biju John
Biju John is an educational writer, educator and the author
of OM - The Otherwise Men.
Kiddingtown is an online education platform.

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The Invisible Man H G Wells

Griffin was an ordinary man but his greed

2. Thinks of inventing a medicine that can:

1. Make himself invisible

1. Griffin leaves the Medical College

4. Earns a living by teaching

1. Griffin steals his fathers money

1. The money did not belong to him

1. Test successful wool disappeared

1. Cat doesnt drink the medicine

5. Neighbours start suspecting Griffin

6. Griffin consumes the medicine

1. Test slowly successful

5. Griffin the Invisible man

1. Excitement of being an invisible man

1. Could not eat without being seen

3. Decides to invent the reverse medicine

1. To make himself visible

1. At Coach and Horses

1. Dislikes Mrs. Hall

2. Gets Thomas Marvel to assist him

1. Returns to Coach and Horses

1. Griffin and Marvel in Burdock

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Character Sketches Notes

3. Thomas Marvel Griffins assistant who ended up the ultimate

4. Mrs. Hall Owner of Coach and Horses inn

6. Dr. Cuss The general practitioner in Iping village

1. Jealous of Griffins collection of chemicals

7. Teddy Henfrey The clock jobber

1. Intrigued by Griffins mysterious behaviour

1 Gri n Arrives Iping

2Teddy Henfreys Impressions

3 A thousand and One Bottles

Today Griffins luggage arrived from the railway station. He had it

4 Dr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger

The general practitioner of Iping, Dr. Cuss, decided to meet this

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5 Burglary at the Vicarage

The guest enters Buntings bedroom. Evidently he was fully

They search every nook and corner of the study.

Behind the screen

The Buntings enter the kitchen.

6 The Furniture that Went Mad

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7 The Unveiling of the Stranger

8 Mr. Gibbons Strange Experience

Questions & Answers

1. What unusual incident happened with Mr. Gibbons?

9 Mr. Thomas Marvel

10 Mr. Marvel Visits Iping

It was still Whit Monday.

They celebrated Whit Monday in a different way

Whit Monday was celebrated at Haysmans Meadow

There was a little shade of fear and uneasiness regarding the

Mr. Marvels arrival

While all were under a suppressed, tentative jolly mood, a

11 In the Coach and Horses

12 Invisible Man loses his Temper

13 Mr. Marvel Discusses his Resignation

Marvels rubicund face expressed consternation and fatigue; he