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Infancy
Gloria is born to Peter and Josefa Garcia. Wrapped around her mother's midsection, Gloria enjoys a walk. Here, Gloria feels warm and safe in her mother's arms, but in the evening her mother leaves for work and Gloria stays with her father. She cries for her mother and wonders why she left. In the infancy stage, the main crisis is trust versus mistrust. The challenge is for the infant to bond with a caregiver, they may feel secure in this attachment or feel mistrust towards the caregiver. -
Adolescense
The Garcias have moved to the U.S. to care for Peter's ill parents. Gloria is immursed in a new, uncomfortable culture. In school she's teased for her accent. She quickly becomes ashamed of her culture. In adolescense the crisis is identity versus identity confusion. The person will be figuring out their place in the world and developing a secure identity, or the person will face identity confusion. -
Young Adulthood
Gloria goes on a few dates, until she meets Harold at a friend's birthday. Harold speaks Spanish and understands her family's quirks. The pair become inseparable. She has dreams of the two marrying, and it isn't long before he proposes. The main crisis of young adulthood is intimacy versus isolation; here the challenge is to connect your true ifentity to another person through a committed, intimate relationship. -
Late Adulthood
Gloria has late stage ovarian cancer. She is sad to be leaving her grandchildren so young, and regrets not taking them to Spain. However, she does find comfort in her faith, knowing she will be reunited with Harold who passed away 11 years ago. She knows that she has lived a beautiful life. The crisis of this stage is ego integrity versus despair. In this stage people are looking back on their lives and may be facing certain challenges in accepting what it is or regretting aspects of it.
