In reading Cooper,Emerson,Thoreau,Mark Twain and James Baldwin,we find that there is some-thing in common in the works of these writers.All these authors are trying to find their personal identity.They are trying to find out who they are,what position they hold in society,what value and meaning of their lives are. They either speak them out in their essays directly or indirectly in the light of literary im-ages in their fiction.