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Lydia's Identity Crisis in Everything I Never Told You
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Shen, Yuan Zhai, Jinyue |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You narrates a tragedy that occurred in a cross-ethnic family in the 1960s. This paper focuses on Lydia's social, family and campus life environment on the strength of Erickson's theory of selfidentity and personality to analyze Lydia's identity crisis. Racism and feminist movement confused Lydia's sense of selfbelonging and self-values, which gave rise to her identity crisis. Parents' exceptional expectations of Lydia and her excessive dependence on her brother also caused Lydia's selfdifferentiation and self-unity obstacles, resulting in her identity crisis. Finally, with Erickson's self-identity theory, this paper analyzes Lydia's obstacles to self-cognition for abnormal heterosexual emotion and alienated peer relationship. The exploration of Lydia's identity crisis will help further interpret the theme of race, gender and self-cognition revealed in the |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.250 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://download.atlantis-press.com/article/125912009.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
