Identity is what makes people who they are. A spirit, an individuality and a reminiscence belong to each individual. Someone could become different; however, we remain profoundly the same. "Wakefield" presents the concept of the story in the form of an ordinary imagination: leaving his wife and his house and realizing the consequence that his non-appearance has on the most beautiful person he left without any knowledge of her. Wakefield is a character who decides to make a decision that completely changes his life. He decides to move away from society; and especially his family and his beloved wife. Without his wife knowing of his disappearance, he refuses to return home even after discovering that his wife is sick and might die. Wakefield returns to his family just after 20 years of missing even though he lived nearby just to see his wife from afar. He comes home as if he lives in this house every day and continues his old way of life. Wakefield is a character in search of his identity and who is self-determined. It is first of all his deep desire to disappear from the life he led, to be imperceptible and to discover the world around him without the presence of others. He decided to isolate himself from the world and live his life independently. Second, Wakefield loses its identity, liquefying in the city streets. This is a person who abandons their primary functions and considers themselves perhaps exchangeable. As the narrator points out, “by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to the fearful risk of losing his place forever” (Hawthorne 6). Third and finally, Wakefield makes the decision to go...... middle of paper ...... a conclusion, the phrase "Amid the apparent confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so well adapted to a system, and systems in relation to each other and to a whole, that, by deviating for an instant, a man exposes himself to a frightening risk of losing his place forever" shows that he threatened his role in a society as a friend and as a husband while trying to create a new world for himself. The narrator leaves us with the enigma to try to understand the story in. the essential, and in an intense sense It could be that the narrator is trying to demonstrate modernity by attempting to describe the extraordinary behaviors of humanity and Wakefield's desire to experience the world individually. tells that even if we don't like the way we live or the way people identify us, inside we will always be the same person..