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Zhuoliu Wu was born in Xinpu Town, Hsinchu County in 1900, who received Japanese education, the so called "Japanese generation". The impression of the motherland is mostly based on the textbooks or the elders’ education. The impression of motherland is vague but with longing for him. He went to Nanjing alone as a reporter for the "Mainland News" in 1941. During the period, there was a gap between the impression of China in his mind and the things he actually experienced in the mainland. After the war (1945-), the identity fracture caused by the expectation of returning to the motherland and the final disappointment, he realized that it was no longer appropriate to resist through force in politics, but could use verbal and penal writing strategies to help Taiwanese youths find hope for the government and the future. The "orphan consciousness" shown in his novel "Orphans of Asia" has received considerable attention and discussion in the academic circles in the past. Different from novels, short stories are more capable of focusing on close-ups of other character types because of their short length and concise plot. Through text analysis, this study intends to explore the changes in Zhuoliu Wu’s national identity in two different life stages and historical backgrounds of the "Japanese rule" and "post-war". The researcher attempts to find out the changes of the "archetypes" identified by Zhuoliu Wu in different periods of time through the theories proposed by Carol Pearson's "internal archetype" theory, and how this "prototype" drove him to change and adjusted his thoughts and behaviors at the time, and thus highlighting Zhuoliu Wu's choices and consciousness in various conflict situations.
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