Re-Shaping Identities in Don Delillo’s Falling Man
Re-Shaping Identities in Don Delillo’s Falling Man

Summary/Abstract: As a trauma novel, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man deals with the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, revealing the effects that such an event had not only on people who were directly affected, but also on the nation itself. Exposed to a dreadful tragedy, most of the characters become victims whose experiences of time, self and the world were disrupted. The personal and collective consciousness was painfully injured causing an emotional anguish that led to great changes in the community’s sense of identity. The present paper intends to illustrate the iconic relationship between traumatic memory and narrative memory as a basis for the re-enactment, repetition and symbolization to become substitutes for a “frozen” identity in the intention of restoring the traumatized self and to function as psychological and literary strategies.

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