Pain can trigger many intense emotions, having a great effect on someone. Some people respond differently to pain, but others experience an emotional transformation. Each text has a transformation that allows the reader to understand the identity of the characters well. Throughout “The Inner Castle,” the reader is unaware of Pansy's personality before the accident, but due to the pain she chooses to isolate herself from the rest of the world by trying to remain secluded in her own thoughts. Unlike Pansy, Lucy Grealy in Autobiography of a Face has a different twist. Lucy undergoes progressively different change, including her reconstructive surgeries and her desire to regain her sense of self. It is unclear whether Lucia overcame her deformity and found herself, but the reader can infer that the pain she felt profoundly altered her state of mind. "Pain Has an Element of Blank" describes the building blocks of pain that cause the transformation in Pansy and Lucy. Emily Dickinson presents pain as an all-consuming world with infinite ends. The reader sees this element of physical and emotional pain as the key to transformation in both women. It is clear that pain has a certain power over people and their experiences