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"Remember the earth whose skin you are: red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. they are alive poems."
This text shows how we are able to express our different identities and how we don't need to hide who we truly are because we all come from the same place.

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"Could I have some? A roll or something? Get outa here. Ill trade you my sun glasses, you say. You take off your shades and hand them up to him. Ray Bans. I lost the case. He tries them on, shakes his head a few times and then takes them off. He folds the glasses and puts them in his shirt pocket. You're crazy, he says then he looks back into the warehouse. He picks up a bag of hard rolls and throws it at your feet." Throughout the Novel the narrator uses his sunglasses to hid his true identity of a life of drugs and partying. Something he is ashamed of. The narrator needs the sunglasses to hide that identity to the real world. The bread that he gets after trading them away symoolizes a new start in life. This shows how in America no matter what your past is you can always find a fresh start to a new identity

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"Together these items weighed between 15 and 20 pounds, depending upon a persons habits or rate of metabolism. Henry Dobbins, who was a big man, carried extra rations; he was especially fond of canned peaches in heavy syrup over puns cake. Dave Jensen, who practiced field hygiene, carried a toothbrush, dental floss, and several hotel sized  bars of soap he'd stolen on R&R in Sydney, Australia. Ted Lavender who was scared carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside a village of Than Khe in mid April"(2)
In America every one is different and everyone has their own identity these men are no exception they each have their trades that make them hole. The author writes as that these have no meaning, but they have meaning to the people that used them. This says a lot about Identity because its about how you make yourself to be and what you find important.

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"The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other."(representative men)

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“Willy, when are you going to realize that these things don’t mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you have in this world is what you can sell."
I feel this quote has a lot to say about identity, where that you are the person you make your self to be and you can't let the idea of what you have done get in the way of what you are going to do