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less than peaceful or normal environment. He is a young man who follows his wandering mother, entering into abusive relations with his step-father, and a young man who eventually comes
out of it all understanding that he perhaps knows nothing but that is a powerful place to start. In the following paper we examine the development of Tobys identity in
Tobias Wolffs "This Boys Life." Toby In the beginning of the novel we see Toby as an innocent boy who is essentially following his mother as she serves
for a dream or success. "Once she learned the ropes shed start prospecting for a claim of her own. And when she found it she planned to do some serious
compensating: for the years of hard work, first as a soda jerk and then as a novice secretary, that had gotten her no farther than flat broke and sometimes not
that far" His mother is a woman who was determined to remedy the suffering caused by "the breakup of our family five years earlier. For the misery of her long
affair with a violent man. She was going to make up for lost time, and I was going to help her" (Wolff NA). In this we essentially see a boy
with little or no identity. He is a young boy who is simply involved with his mothers adventures and travels. He is not overly intelligent, nor is he overly wise
at this point. His mother, however, a woman of "strange docility, almost paralysis, with men of the tyrant breed," would serve as the foundation for his journey towards identity
because no matter how he grew, her energy would somehow influence him in subtle ways, helping create the man he would slowly become. Perhaps the most pronounced of her traits
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