Identity Change In Short Story

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Identity is what describes you as a person and the character trait you carry. Can an identity change throughout time? I think identity can change in a person in a short time. Some people don’t notice that they have changed but during short period people can change due to other characters. In these short stories that we have read, there have been many characters that have changed throughout the story. “...been about personal identity, and specifically about personal identity over time...” (Noonan). This quote states that people personality change over time and how they treat others change too. Another source that I found that agrees with my thesis is, “The traditional personal identity question, the persistence or diachronic (through time) identity question, arises because things change over time.” (The Traditional Personal Identity Question). This quote also states that identity can change throughout the time. There has been some characters I think identity can be altered …show more content…

In the story it says, “It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of ‘killed.’.” (Chopin, 1). This shows that she received a news about her husband being killed and later one she becomes so happy due to this news. At the end of the story she gets heart attack because she sees her husband at the door. At the end of story it says, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.” (Chopin, 2). This is saying that she has died because she was so happy when she heard that her husband is dead but soon as she heard her husband enter the door she died of it. This shows how Louise character changed from the beginning of the story to the end of the story from the reaction she had from seeing her husband and hearing news about

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