The Third Life of Grange Copeland focuses on Grange's life journey starting from economically and morally low point to the end where he is in a state of economic stability and at a morally high point, and it is worthwhile to note that Grange 's son takes an opposite life course. The father-son identity change reflects black people's limitations of self-understanding and the plasticity of their character in a white supremacist-tinged society. This paper is to explore the reasons and patterns of the identity change un-der the illumination of Plato's parable of cave, arguing that Grange Copeland's conversion of soul in his third life illustrates, in an ancient philosophical vision, Walker's ideal image of black.
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