The loss of soul leads the loss of identity in Lena Coakley’s Mirror Image
The loss of soul leads the loss of identity in Lena Coakley’s Mirror Image Identity is the basic characteristics that determine a person’s fact of being. The short story “Mirror Image” illiterates this using different conflicts, such as physical attributes, mental, emotional, and spiritual factors. Alice, who had a brain transplant surgery after a car accident. Her brain is transplanted to another girl’s body named Gail, who is 2 years older than her and has totally different experiences from which Alice has. She struggles finding what defines her, being confused trusting her body’s willing or her brain till the end of the story. Trough Alice’s whole experience, soul can be regarded as the most significant influence on identity rather than her body’s willing or her brain. It can be observed through the literary devices of internal conflict and external conflict.
After such a big change happened to Alice, behaving in the same way that she used to do seems very impossible. As the result of this big change, she starts to lose herself. Her loss of soul leads her lost of identity, which can be seen through the literary devices of internal conflict. After Alice comes back from hospital, she once asks Jenny, her sister, to exchange and read each other’s diaries. Jenny strongly refuses her, which does not make sense to Alice, she says “Jenny, we’re still twins. I have the same memories:Camp Wasaga, moving to Toronto...Dad. You know, when I draw I can still make the shadows, just the way he showed us. Isn’t that amazing? Even though I have a different hand. And my signature is the same too. This is me in here, Jenny. My brain is me”(13). Although what she says to seems that she’s pretty sure of who she is, she is afraid of thinking about her identity. The physical changes on Alice get in the way between her sister and herself’s relationship. And this also lead her starts to dout whether she is still the girl that everyone knows before. On the birthday celebration
After such a big change happened to Alice, behaving in the same way that she used to do seems very impossible. As the result of this big change, she starts to lose herself. Her loss of soul leads her lost of identity, which can be seen through the literary devices of internal conflict. After Alice comes back from hospital, she once asks Jenny, her sister, to exchange and read each other’s diaries. Jenny strongly refuses her, which does not make sense to Alice, she says “Jenny, we’re still twins. I have the same memories:Camp Wasaga, moving to Toronto...Dad. You know, when I draw I can still make the shadows, just the way he showed us. Isn’t that amazing? Even though I have a different hand. And my signature is the same too. This is me in here, Jenny. My brain is me”(13). Although what she says to seems that she’s pretty sure of who she is, she is afraid of thinking about her identity. The physical changes on Alice get in the way between her sister and herself’s relationship. And this also lead her starts to dout whether she is still the girl that everyone knows before. On the birthday celebration