# Identity and Belonging in The Head of Kay’s

> Theme guide for The Head of Kay’s by P. G. Wodehouse.

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.

## Where it surfaces

- [The Sensations of an Exile](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/chapters/ix-the-sensations-of-an-exile): Kennedy's sense of exile and loss of house identity after being uprooted from Blackburn's.
- [The Sports](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_head_of_kay_s_se/chapters/xxiv-the-sports): Dencroft's victory helps shed the house's former reputation as Kay's, forging a new identity.

## Links

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