What perspectives about identity does the writer provide in the story?

What perspectives about identity does the writer provide in the story? ( For example, how does the story help you understand the extent race, gender or class are constructed or the extent to which race, gender and class informs the structural inequality in society, etc. It depends on what you take out of the story) How does this perspective help you understand the situation of your choice? How does the author tell the story from the reading that helps you understand a comparable situation?