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Essay / Loss of Identity in Kevin Wilson's The Great Alternate as being emotionless and detached from her family. In the story, the main character is employed by a company called Grand Stand-In, a company that provides extra grandparents. While working for this company, she needs to be able to disconnect from one family to another. Her true identity revealed later in the story is that she is attached to her family and cannot disconnect from them. While the protagonist claims to be the “queen of disconnection,” in reality she cares about her family (4). But in the end, she loses her false identity and embraces her true identity. Wilson creates the character with no intention of love in her life, with her family dead or never present, so she has no close relationships until she loves her family. Because she doesn't love anyone, she says: "I have a lot of love to give" (5). This passage shows her true identity, and that she truly cares and wants to share her love with others. This is ironic because she is not supposed to be attached to her family because she says she loves "all [her] grandchildren exactly the same" (19). Just like the narrator in "Great Replacement", Wynn and Scotty in "Mortal Kombat", who are also trying to find each other. The grandmother thinks that she is that person who doesn't know how to love and disconnect so well in her work, but in reality she finds herself when she starts to care about her family and when she says "I have lots of love to give” (5). She doesn't like anyone and the change in which she started getting attached was the turning point in the story. Wilson creates this dramatic shift in the stories as the characters discover who they really are to show the reader that sometimes you spend your whole life trying to figure out who you really are.
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