关键词: 自我身份认同, 社会身份认同, 混合身份认同

Abstract:

The study on American writer Mark Twain's short story Is He Living or Is He Dead can be started with the issue of identity,especially the four young artists' self-identity, social-identity and hybrid-identity and the relevance of the three aspects. Millet fakes his death, and changes his name. Even though he lives as a rich manufacturer, he loses his self-identity. The former happy young man who loved painting and was full of dream has gone. He lives with his hybrid-identity of loneliness and agony. Although he is physically alive, he is mentally dead.

Key words: self-identity, social-identity, hybrid-identity