The Objectiveness Of American Identity Essay

Then, Cal’s experience highlights the objectiveness of American identity. America is prone to generalize people and not have them be their individual self. People who live in America are called Americans. They may have an array of colors or cultural backgrounds, but mainly they are Americans. Here, there is no individualistic identity, everyone from here is an American. Everyone gets something from the Melting Pot; they get something from each culture that was combined. When Cal evolved, and found himself, he realized that he is both male and female inside. He can now practice gender fluidity, (although he wants to mainly remain a man). The house with no doors that he refers to as his body and his inability to practice gender fluidity is no …show more content…
How they see the world, and what they think their role is determines how they will behave. Throughout their lives, their identity changes as the situations change. With Cal, his identity changed as he was exposed to different situations. He was a girl for fourteen years of his life, living with his parents. They saw him as Callie, they urged him to be her. Then, he became Cal when he ran away, when there weren’t anyone forcing him to be a girl. This is like what America does. It forces a person to be who they want them to be. Also, there is a certain objectiveness in terms of sex. Sex is biological, and objectiveness is factual and a generalization. It has no individuality, it is the same for every sex; it is inevitable. There isn’t much that a person can do to change their sex, except to have a transgender sexual reassignment surgery. But, it mostly doesn’t change. One thing you can change is your gender, which is more subjective as it involves individuality. Eugenides used sex and gender to emphasize that having an American identity means being subjected of all the things that America is known for (to be objective), and risk losing individuality (being