Who Is Alice In Mirror Image

Nowadays people have a hard time with finding out who they are and struggle with identity confusion. In the Short Story “Mirror Image” by Lena Coakley, trouble finding who they are and struggle with identity confusion comes up a lot with the main character in this short story named Alice.Alice feels that her identity and her personality are not the same anymore since having her procedure on getting a new body. Alice has quite a hard time trying to figure out who she and why she looks so different in her new body she feels this way from the lack of support entailed by her family and her family not treating the way they used to because she looks different than she did before her surgery. But after Alice had met up with Mr.Jarred the man who donated his daughters body to Alice he helped Alice somewhat realize that she is the same girl she was going into that surgery as she is coming out and nothing has changed other than the fact that she may look different. Firstly, Alice feels like everything is different on the outside of her body than before she feels like she has stepped into a …show more content…
But since Alice has a new body no one even her family looks at her the same people treat her differently because of her new body, Once Alice starts to be treated

Alice differently because of the way she looks, she gets confused and starts second herself on if it is really her and the concept of identity confusion kicks in. Alice feels that no one looks at her the same that everyone thinks she is a new person even her family “This is me in here, Jenny.My brain is me”(Coakley pg.2) Alice tries to