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so that it's the identity that allows for the final alienation.
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The identity or the security in the family is what allows for the
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finding of one's separateness in the woods.
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So, there are two kinds of identity at issue,
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the single and the communal,
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or you could say the contemplative and the social.
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I think it's ultimately the contemplative,
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or the singular person, that interests Robinson even more.
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But I will say that in the initial reception of this novel--
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because the Identity Plot is so fixed in the pattern of literary
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work in this period and also fixed in the concerns of critics--
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early readings of this novel really were all about