Identity and Belonging

Kennedy's forced transfer from Blackburn's to Kay's creates a crisis of identity, as he grapples with being an exile in a hostile environment and losing his sense of home.

Kennedy's sense of exile and loss of house identity after being uprooted from Blackburn's.

Dencroft's victory helps shed the house's former reputation as Kay's, forging a new identity.

Identity and Belonging is one of the patterns The Head of Kay’s by P. G. Wodehouse returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.