The narrator's dilemma is similar to that of Brother Clifton. He comes to be convinced that he has been used by people all his life and that this has stripped him of his identity. As Clifton assumes the doll's identity, the narrator assumes many other people's identities trying to discover who he is. The best example of this is when he takes the identity of an individual named Rinehart's. It is no accident that he chooses someone with no single identity, himself, but rather a chameleon who is a preacher, a gambler and many more personalities. Through this he broadens his horizons on many different lifestyles and possibilities, but despite all these possibilities he cannot find satisfaction.

nk and a paper doll, respectively. I choose to write about these items because they are symbolic of his struggle in his community fighting for the black people and of his struggle within himself searching for identity.

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