IM learns as he pretends to be this man, who goes by the name of Rinehart, that Rinehart has many different personalities and this shows the fluidity of identity. In this case, Ellison continues to display how identity can be perceived by others on the “outside.” While pretending to be Rinehart, IM questions if Rinehart can really be all if these people. “Still, could he be all of them: Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the briber and Rine the lover and Rinehart the Reverend? Could he himself be both rind and heart? What is real anyway?…His world was possibility and he knew it.”