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How did the invisible man meet his associate, Thomas Marvel ? What help did he expect from him ? 

↵Thomas Marvel is an eccentric bachelor, red-faced, fat, local tramp, slow and always seeks comfort ·         Finds a pair of boots in the ditch, tries them on and when they don’t fit, sits pondering upon the situation ·         Suddenly hears a voice and a conversation about the boots goes on till Marvel finally turns to see who is speaking with him. He of course sees no one. ·         He wonders if he has had too much to drink. The invisible man throws things at him to convince him that everything was real and he was looking for an assistant. ·         He wants Marvel to arrange his food, water and shelter without betraying him.
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he was ecpecting a gift
 
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Marvel is kind of like the Invisible Man's sidekick. Except he's terrible at it. He abandons the IM and still, he gets pretty nicely rewarded. That's kind of an odd moral.

Marvel is something of a stock character when we first meet him. He's the poor, homeless, jobless wanderer – in other words, he's a tramp. He wears shabby, old-fashioned clothes, like his "obsolete hat" , and he has buttons replaced by pieces of string. The narrator goes so far as to tell us that he does everything in a leisurely manner (9.2). He doesn't seem to like work or excitement. Typical homeless guy in fiction.

He definitely doesn't like working for the Invisible Man. He carries his stuff, including the money the Invisible Man steals in Port Stowe, but this isn't a super fun arrangement for him. So it's no surprise when he decides to jump ship.

But here's the thing: Marvel ends up successful. Since the police can't prove whose money he has, he gets to keep everything that was stolen by the Invisible Man (Epilogue.2). Then he gets even more money for telling the story of the Invisible Man (Epilogue.2) – was Us Weekly around then? That's how Marvel is able to rise up from being a poor tramp to being the owner of his own bar (which is named after his old boss, the Invisible Man).

Marvel might not be any less sketchy than the Invisible Man, but guess what: Marvel doesn't get caught. Aw,snap.

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How thomas marvel becomes the assistance of the invisible man ?
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Thomas Marvel was a large man of flexible visage, he had a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth and a bristly beard. His figure was well-rounded, his short limbs accentuated this propensity towards a rotund figure. He wore a furry silk hat and the frequent substitution of twine and shoe-laces for buttons, apparent at critical points of his costume, which made him out to be a bachelor. It is at that juncture when he was sitting by himself and contemplating upon the poor condition of his shoes that he encountered the Invisible Man as the Voice who succeeded in bullying him into becoming his reluctant accomplice. Marvel was distraught and harried from his time with the Invisible Man, he wanted to be let out and that is why he offered his resignation. The Invisible Man wanted to use him as a tool because there were a lot of things that he needed to do which he couldn't due to his condition. Marvel however was not willing to be made a tool and he decided to snivel and grovel his way out of his predicament. He said he would be the worst possible tool, his heart was weak and he was most likely to mess up the Invisible Man's plan out of sheer funk and misery. Marvel had by this time realized the dangerous predicament he had unwittingly got himself into because the Invisible Man seemed like a man possessed in his work. Marvel began to rant against him saying that he wished he was dead, that it was devilish hard and unendurable but to no avail, all his entreaties were ineffectual and fell on deaf ears. The Invisible Man was bent upon making use of him and threatened to twist his wrist if Marvel did not pipe down. It could much worse if Marvel played up and then he would have to deal with the wrath of the Invisible Man. So, Marvel's attempt towards offering his resignation was unsuccessful because the Invisible Man succeeded in bullying and threatening him into submission. However, Marvel became the chink in the armour so to speak for the Invisible Man, he held the key to the three manuscript books which would help perpetuate the state of invisibility for the Invisible Man. If he hadn't turned on him and given himself up to the police, the Invisible Man would not have been apprehended in his demonic task of unleashing a reign of terror. Eventually, Thomas Marvel became the landlord of a little inn near Port Stowe, a short and corpulent little man with a nose of cylindrical proportions, wiry hair and a sporadic rosiness of visage who retained his ill-begotten ownership over the Invisible Man's prized possessions.

 
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