Invisible Man Chapter 5

The narrator feels guilt about what happened that day with Mr Nortan. Barbee had made him see that by endangering his relationship with Mr Nortan, he was endangering his relationship with the entire school. His dream is to get through college and be a successful black man in a white world. Anything he does that is bad for the school, is betraying that dream. Therefore it is an act of treason against his own dreams.