Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures -- national, regional, ethnic, religious, institutional. Such collisions can call a character's sense of identity into question. Select a character caught in such a cultural collis

Joe Clear is a character who resists taking sides or becoming embroiled in a cultural war. Unlike many of the other characters, he tries to do the right thing in terms of humanity, rather than pick sides in the Irish Civil War. It remains unclear whether he commits suicide or is killed by one side or the other, but the conflict that surrounds him ultimately serves as the cause of his death.