There are three types of identity crisis: a temporary change of identity; no change at all, and a permanent change that isn’t reverted. Looking at the classic novels An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestly and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, we can see these are present in their characters.Of Mice and Men was first published in 1937, it is a poignant tale of a remarkable friendship between two peripatetic workers in the Great Depression years of 1930’s America. George is a small hardworking man and Lennie is his large, primitive friend; they both share a dream for land of their own; but when they find work on a California’s Salinas Valley, the dream is pushed to the utmost limit. An Inspector Calls was first published in 1992 by Tim Bezant; the
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Looking at An Inspector Calls we can see there is a similarity between Crooks and the character Gerald Croft. This character is engaged to Sheila Burling but only for business reasons, during the play we discover that Gerald has an affair with Daisy Renton; Daisy is a thematic character that is there to symbolise the people at the bottom of the class ranking system. She is in the same position as Crooks and Curly’s wife in Of Mice and Men.
Gerald experiences his crisis of identity when Inspector Goole interrogates him. For most of the Birling’s inquisitions Gerald Croft believes he has nothing to do with it: “I don’t come into this suicide business.” But when the Inspector says the name Daisy Renton Gerald is obviously surprised and hiding something as he replies in a ‘startled’ manner. At first Gerald tries to keep it from the inspector
“we can keep it from him...where did you get the idea that I did know her?”
But in the end tells him the story, Gerald’s language shows that he isn’t sorry for effectively leaving Daisy/Eva homeless after he leaves for a business trip
Looking at An Inspector Calls we can see there is a similarity between Crooks and the character Gerald Croft. This character is engaged to Sheila Burling but only for business reasons, during the play we discover that Gerald has an affair with Daisy Renton; Daisy is a thematic character that is there to symbolise the people at the bottom of the class ranking system. She is in the same position as Crooks and Curly’s wife in Of Mice and Men.
Gerald experiences his crisis of identity when Inspector Goole interrogates him. For most of the Birling’s inquisitions Gerald Croft believes he has nothing to do with it: “I don’t come into this suicide business.” But when the Inspector says the name Daisy Renton Gerald is obviously surprised and hiding something as he replies in a ‘startled’ manner. At first Gerald tries to keep it from the inspector
“we can keep it from him...where did you get the idea that I did know her?”
But in the end tells him the story, Gerald’s language shows that he isn’t sorry for effectively leaving Daisy/Eva homeless after he leaves for a business trip