Although it may seem easy, one of the most difficult parts to express of one's inner self is emotion. In "Borges and I" by Jorge Luis Borges, Borges struggles with a loss of identity. He separates himself from Borges the writer, and creates a real person, the person behind the author, within his persona, the author known in his social identity. Borges creates the person "I", a person who is closest to his real self, and may be one of the many roles he plays in life. This "I" is confused and desperate because the "writer Borges" is taking all he has and putting it into literature that does not relate to him. "I" knows that his real self will never be able to be revealed in his work because an identity and "goodness" is unexplainable. However, "I" realizes that Borges' work is the only form of communication...