Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter moves around the protagonist Rosa who focuses on her autonomous self and independent identity. It deals withRosa, the protagonist,who travels toFrance and enjoys sensual pleasure by ignoring her own original self. She is disillusioned and realizes that there is no escape from one’s real self. This awareness is created in her by Zwelinzima, her black sibling. So, eventually,Rosa returns with the awareness of the importance of her roots in her society from which she cannot escape. The aim of this paper is to analyze how an individual identity is always a relational one It also explores why an identity is changeable, and our notion of identity is greatly influenced by cultural, political and economic phenomena.

adine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter moves around the protagonist Rosa who focuses on her autonomous self and independent identity.