She has a crisis and no commitment. She wants to discover who she is in life but can't commit to who she really is and hides behind a character from a book, Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter. In hiding, she fails to commit to finding herself and lives her life through someone else. Marcia explains that Olive has trouble making decisions. Olive is confident and close to her family, but she also does things on her own. She wants to let a boy near her but is afraid to let anyone in and wants a close relationship. Marcia says that once she has the ability to make commitments, Olive will achieve her identity and overcome the identity crisis. The status then became that of the realization of identity. This is depicted when his identity crisis problem is resolved. Olive has struggled emotionally and matured on her journey to discover who she really is. Marcia describes this as a crisis leading to commitment. When Olive decided to pretend to sleep with many peers and started sewing the letter "A" on all her clothes, she was in the grip of a crisis. She was struggling with a commitment when she noticed what she was doing was wrong and apologized to her best friend and was honest with the boy she had.