“We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick is a short story, whose protagonist, Douglas Quail, starts off unhappy with his seemingly unimportant place in the world but ends up the most important person in the world. With that being said, Quail’s identity takes several sharp turns as his memories ebb and flow from him. Who and what he thinks he is changes frequently over the short story. Quail’s struggles with his identity embodies Buddhism’s three Marks of Existence; Unsatisfactoriness, impermanence, and the non-self. The constant changes, like unstable memory and the story’s events, Quail, through these tenets of Buddhism, show that an individual’s identity is not a stable one.…