He has no fixed abode and is of uncertain identity. He gives himself a variety of name –Jenkins, Davies, MacDavies. This This latter name is both a joke on Pinter’s part and a deliberate obfuscation, as Davies would indicate Welsh background, while Mac is a Scottish prefix. He also cannot “remember” where he was born or when. He wants to avoid being pinned down. He claims he left his identity papers with a “man” at Sidcup many years ago, but constantly finds reasons for being unable to go back for them. This again is a tactic. It both gives him a potential focus for action, and a reason for not being able to be a part of society with the responsibilities that entails. It also suggests that there may be something he doesn’t want known about his past. He is in general suspicious and fearful of the outside world: A bell may ring, there may be a knock on a door, someone might ask him for his papers and he would be “finished.” This has the resonances of Pinter’s concern , mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, with the unspecified menace of the modern world where , as in Kafka’s The Trial, a knock may come at four in the morning and one can be taken away, tried, and executed for a crime of which one has no knowledge.