Egocentricity and Sexual Relationships in The Chaneysville Incident Ess

Egocentricity and Sexual Relationships in The Chaneysville Incident The Pennsylvania Turnpikes enormous and various extensions branch between the Philadelphia, the place of Johns more or less advanced assimilation, and the land of his origin, where in the darkness of Jack Crawleys hut he is closest to his identity as a black man. Likewise, even as a young boy attainment the ways of his race, he is the latest branch of a family chronology that continues to thin ethnically, a branch with an impossibly distant origin buried in darkness. But the consummation that carries John away from The Hill, away from Jacks hut and away from his own identity, is no more a source of his tormented ambivalence than the family history that fathered him. As the fight influences engage him, so too does the persistent love of Judith, a white woman with Southern ancestry upon whom the reconciliation of his identity conflict relies. However, John repels her for most of the novel and withdraws further into the isolation of his obsession. Johns attitude toward Judith underscores his ambivalence, and at meters seems baffling. However, the clashing egos of men and women and the awkwardness of their attempted union are not alien to literary works or to life in general, and are repeated in a Narcissistic archetype. During his maddening quest for truth, John attacks the influences that push him further from himself, shedding the alterations of time to understand his identity, which extends far beyond his birth. His energies and emotions are literally self-directed, internalizing to a frigid Narcissism, which is inevitably doomed. The fragmentation of his identity is beyond assembling, and similar to the self-directed libido that proves fatal for some(prenominal) Narcissus and... ...h as is rationally possible. Though the novels end is ambiguous and disturbing, it appears as though John has relinquished his Narcissism completely, indeed sacrificing a degree of his primordial identity, exactly gaining the more important aim of self-preservation, as he burns the no-longer-necessary clues. Although it is ambiguous, the hypothesis that John is about to kill himself is illogical. He doubtless undergoes a suicide of a different nature, killing his Narcissus and continuing to live with a rested conscious, directing his energy toward the future. Work Cited and ConsultedBradley, David. The Chaneysville Incident (1981) Rpt. New York HR, Perennial Library Edition, 1990. Pavlic, Edward. Syndetic buyback Above-Underground Emergence in David Bradleys The Chaneysville Incident. African American Review (Summer 1996), 30(2)166-167, 169, 181n10.