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Identity Crisis In The Lonely Londoners

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The Lonely Londoners novel presents some identity crisis who employs a various approach to surviving as immigrants and in the process of doing so they establish a risky hold on the London life. A refrain that reappear throughout the novel turns on the perseverance that the old identities that the immigrants brought with them to London. The old identity of Cap is characterized by the use of fashion style from either Spain or Kingston, lack of cooperation, untransformed. Cap also use her fashion style to disappear in moments when he does not want to be noticed.Harris have a character that are contrary to those of Cap. Harris is an early model of what Naipaul defines as a mimic man; he is obsessed …show more content…

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