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Essay / Identity In Joyce Carol Oates Life After High School
Valgardson, the man was bored with his life and thought he needed a change. If I were him and I had everything planned out: a family, a car and a house, I would never get up and leave. He didn't want to live the same lifestyle for the rest of his life. If I were him, I would just move to another house, another province or even another country, to get some change. He goes through an internal struggle thinking that he is simply tired of his life and needs a change. In order to look like the stereotypical man in the neighborhood he hangs out in, he doesn't shave or dress. When he stops in front of a small store to call his wife, he sees "three young men and a slumped girl" standing at the edge of the light. In an attempt to make it seem like he resembles the four people and the neighborhood he is in, he changes his identity. I am guilty of changing my identity just to fit in with the people who live there. In 2010, when my family went to India, we had to dress up and try to look like them. If some thieves considered us strangers, they would... who knows what they would have done to us. He has changed the way he dresses and the way he is perceived by others. He wants to make it appear that he stole the car so that other people won't steal it. The irony is that he thinks the four beings are going to harm him, but it is the police officer who ends up killing him. He stereotyped the four people as