... for identity. American writers, such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers and others have all experienced the approach of this theme in their short stories. The way they have envisaged their works centered on the theme of the quest for a specific identity is part ... without their acceptance. His final surrender to his new identity is perceived in his symbolic act, that of joining in on the laughter of the mob. In Edgar Allan Poe...

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