The present study is about glimpse of mourning over the loss of roots, the quality of the Protean self, quest for identity and Existence in this world. The novel of Paul Auster named as Moon Palace has been analyzed to study the character of Marco Stanley Fogg whose life is trouble-torn and worry-born due to his blurred identity. The paper tries to observe the process of protean self and identity shifting in the novel of Paul Auster. This is a theoretical framework through the lens of proteanism or the theory of the protean self, a theory by Robert Jay Lifton. The novel Moon Palace written by Paul Auster has been analyzed here to study the fragmented personalities in the novel. Human life is not a bed of roses but it is full of sorrows, challenges, and uncertainties. Human life is not a bed of roses but it is full of troubles, challenges and uncertainties. A person needs social and emotional security and stability while facing all this. But it is not so easy to find such stability in this world, especially in American society. A person, who is living without knowing about his origin, remains a hopeless creep and faces many problems and challenges. His life is a rudderless boat which may go to any direction, sink anywhere in ocean of life, or it may take him to a world that is entirely new and acceptable for him. Here, we study the character of Marco Stanley Fogg who is unknown to his actual identity or origin. Due to which he faces a lot of crisis in life.

Origin, Protean-self, identity, psychosocial, historical dislocation