Identity In Divine Right Path

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Before Estelle's parting with Divine Right, he tells Estelle he would prefer to see his sister's family without her. D.R. is incapable of reconciling his two identities at this point. With Estelle, he is Divine Right; with his family, he is David Ray. For Estelle and his sister to meet, his two identities would also have to meet. At this point, D.R. is still trying to reconcile his two identities. Divine Right settles in to Marcella and Doyle’s home as if he has lived there all his life. Doyle recounts a story of his dreams that led to his salvation. Doyle’s journey to salvation can show Divine Right the way. Divine Right finds out about Uncle Emmitt’s illness and this represents a chance for his salvation and the onset of the final leg of …show more content…
Godsey informing him of uncle’s bad health and asking him to come home. The narration suddenly shifts from Divine Right's journey home to David Ray's weekend trips as a boy from Cincinnati back to the old home place as he crosses the Ohio River. When the narrator shifts attention back to Divine Right, he is at a crossroads in Kentucky and so is the story: the two personalities are about to meet. The phantom appearance of Fess Parker on the movie screen and the miner with his lighted hat are an indication that Divine Right has stumbled into unknown territory. D.R. plunges into even more intimate territory as he struggles with his identities in the back of the van while the miner drives him closer to home. His hallucination in the back of the van sends him into an otherworldly experience where he meets a dragon with "seven horns and crowning each horn in rays of light was Estelle's face, distorted by a grin so evil and so knowing D.R. shuddered" (Norman, 195). In Divine Right's imagination, the energy of his real self, David Ray, appears as a monster and the one thing that David Ray longs for most, Estelle, seems sinister. Upon his arrival at Mrs. Godsey's, however, David Ray, not Divine Right, climbs out of the

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