Identity is what makes people who they are. A spirit, an individuality and a reminiscence are something that belongs to every individual. Someone might become different; however, profoundly we continue to be the same. “Wakefield” lays out the concept of the story in the form of an ordinary imagery: leaving his wife and home and realizing the consequence his disappearance has on the loveliest people he left behind without any knowledge of him. Wakefield is a character who decides to make a decision that completely changes his life. He decides to distance himself from society; and above all by his family and his beloved wife. Without his wife's knowledge of his disappearance, he refuses to return home even after finding out that his wife is ill and may die. Wakefield returns to his family soon after 20 years of disappearance even though he lived nearby only to see his wife from afar. He returns as if he lives in that house every day and continues his old way of life. Wakefield is a character who is searching for his own identity and is self-determining. First and foremost is his deep desire to disappear from the life he lived, to be imperceptible and to discover the world around him without the presence of others. He decided to isolate himself from the world by living his life independently. Secondly, Wakefield loses its identity, liquefying in the city streets. He is a person who abandons his main duties and believes that he is perhaps interchangeable. As the narrator points out, “by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to the terrible risk of losing his place forever” (Hawthorne 6). Third and finally, Wakefield decides to go to... in the middle of the paper... a conclusion, the expression "Amid the apparent confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so well adapted to a system, and systems with each other and with respect to the whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to the terrible risk of losing his place forever” demonstrates that he has threatened his role in a society as a friend and as a husband while seeking of creating a new world for himself. It may be that the narrator is trying to demonstrate modernity trying to describe the extraordinary behaviors of humanity and Wakefield's desire to experience the world individually This is a story that tells us that even if we don't like the way we live or the way people identify us, inside we will be. always the same person.