Identities by W.D . Valgardson

In the short story “Identities” by W.D. Valgardson you initially think this story going to be about someone who doesn't know who they are or in other words their “Identity”. But this story is about how your identity determines almost completely who you are perceived to be. For example when you think about a police officer stereotypically they are the “protectors” and the main character was supposed to be stereotypical “criminal”. But in this story the police officer wasn't the protector at all instead he was the opposite, and the main character wasn't anything near a criminal he was just a average man trying to live his life. The author W.D. Valgardson uses character development ,foreshadowing,and irony to prove that stereotypes are more harmful than beneficial to society because unfortunately,everyone see's what you appear to be ...few know what you really are. As the story begins The author uses characterization to portray a stereotypical wealthy persona who rarely strays from his usual routine and has been rich all of his life. And his stereotype is even harmful to him, which is causing him to try to escape because he feels so trapped which leads to trouble. “Normally, he goes clean-shaven into the world, but the promise of a Saturday liquid with sunshine draws him first from his study to the backyard...The smell of burning leaves stirs the memories of childhood car rides, narrow lanes adrift with yellow leaves, girls on plodding horses, unattended stands piled high with pumpkins, onions, or beets so that each one was, in its own way, a still life.” The main character as he continues to reminisce it seems to make him want to make change out of the ordinary and suffocating stereotypical lifestyle “Wakes in him a desire to temporarily abandon the twice-cut yards and hundred-year-old oaks...He meanders, instead, through the neat suburban labyrinth of cul-de-sacs, bays and circles, losing and finding himself endless
...He has on blue jeans – matching