Identity in Sag Harbor
Central to coming-of-age novels and Benji's journey is the discovery of one's identity and understanding that your identity doesn't just comprise of how you see yourself but how the world perceives you. Benji is relatively well-off and attends a elite private school in New York and his parents are both professionals. His summers are spent in Sag Harbor, pretty much cut off from everything else, and this seems to be similar to many other experiences children his other age might have, though the history of Sag Harbor as a place as well as the legacy his family has established here makes this experience even more unique. In many ways, Benji and his life are emblematic of the life of teenagers in the 1980s. They eat junk food, sit in front of the TV all day during the summer, and are looked upon with disdain from adults who remember the good old days when teenagers actually did something substantial with their lives and didn't sit around being shitheads. However, attending