The Bear That Wasn’t by Frank Tashlin expresses the topic and main idea of a bear who struggles with loss of identity. In the beginning of the story,the bear is hibernating, oblivious to the construction of a factory above him. As he emerges from his slumber and walks outside, the foreman yells at the bear for not working. The bear simply replies ‘but I’m a bear.’ The foreman insisted that the bear is a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat. The bear denies it repeatedly, so is taken up the podium of vice presidents and the sequence repeats itself, until he meets the President of the factory. The President decides he will take the bear to a zoo to ask the other bears is the bear is an authentic bear. When they arrive at the bears
