Procuring Selfhood in Anne Tyler’s Novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Abstract

Self-identity is mixing up the different roles that people play throughout their life to build their self-perception. Individuals can determine their priorities in terms of belief, values activities and life goals by building self-identity. This paper aims to focus on the different perspective narration of the characters in Anne Tyler’s novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant about fruition of their lives and how they contour themselves to form a self-identity after facing the difficulties of life.