A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling.

I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.

I am who I am.

I can't not be who I am.

I am who I am, a Southie.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.