Ever since the narrator was released from the factory hospital his outlook on life had changed. Despite the rather rough start and dependence on Mary, the narrator eventually finds his groove and starts to make the difference and find his identity. The narrator finds his voice while observing the eviction and a new side of the narrator was revealed.
However, the new independence that we see in the narrator is very quickly overtaken when brother Jack comes and offers the narrator a position in the brotherhood. The position is offered for what the narrator represents rather than what he believes and thinks is right. One of the only reasons why the narrator accepts the position in the brotherhood is because it allows him to repay the loans from Mary and give him an almost false sense of self-importance. The whole acceptance into the brotherhood is very rushed and rather confusing for the narrator. One of the most important lines in the requirement of the narrator is when brother Jack says “We've been waiting for you for months. Or for someone who could do what you've done." The quote proves that the Brotherhood doesn’t care about who the narrator is or was but rather what they can mold him into becoming. The Brotherhood the narrator is nothing more than a tool, rather than a person with agency. As we become more familiar with the brotherhood we continue to see how they mold the narrator, when he doesn’t follow their exact rules they send the narrator away to get “educated” in the scientific ideologies of the Brotherhood. For the most part, we see the narrator enjoying the new opportunities and the new ideas that he is learning. But his whole entire life becomes centered on the Brotherhood and it makes up the entirety of his identity, which would seem rather fitting considering in order to become part of the Brotherhood the narrator was given a new name, and a completely new life that he would live.To him the brotherhood is his life, to them he is just a device to continue their mission.
Only when the Brotherhood turns it’s back on the narrator does it challenge the new views that he was asked to learn. When the narrator finds out about the meet which he was not called into he does something rather odd, and decides to buy shoes. It doesn’t make very much sense for the narrator to go buy shoes but to the Brotherhood, they are simplify discarding a tool which had lost its use. Naturally the narrator takes person offense to being not called into the meeting and decided to have a person revolt on the brotherhood, they will attempt to continue to control him and send him to learn more about speech’s and the brotherhood ideologies but all that the narrator is trying to do is find a new identity now that his given identity has been discarded by the gifter.
